The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Yiddish Learning A loner addicted to reinventing

A loner addicted to reinventing himself—at times a Russian laborer

it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society

Novelist Joseph Skibell celebrates Kantor's "brave vision

He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive―what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite―which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture

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The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Yiddish Learning A loner addicted to reinventingA fascinating account of the avant garde photo based arts from the early Soviet Union, featuring many previously unpublished images Finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the Visual Arts category Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist