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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume." Review:"Rarely if ever has what George Orwell fancifully called 'the memory hole' received the kind of stunning real-life elaboration it gets in The Commissar Vanishes." (The New York Times) Review:"Brilliant, fascinating, sinister, and hilarious." (The New York Times Book Review) Review:"Vivid, tragic, and at times comic evidence of Stalin's determination to manipulate even his country's memory." (The Wall Street Journal) Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index. About the AuthorDuring the past three decades, author and photo-historian David King has assembled the world’s largest archive of doctored photographs, posters, and painting from the Soviet era. King began his collection during a trip to Russia in 1970, when he discovered that thousands of images of Stalin’s victims had been lost to posterity—either by design or neglect. His collection has grown to more than a quarter million images, the best of which have been selected for The Commissar Vanishes. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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