Georgia O’Keeffe, East River No. 3, Grey Blue with Snow, 1926

Photographs

Skiers, c. 1929

Arkadii Samojlowitsch Shaikhet (Ukrainian, 1898-1959) Gelatin silver print
Skiers

Arkadii Shaikhet was a leader of the Russian Society of Proletarian Photographers (ROPF), a group formed during Joseph Stalin’s first Five Year Plan in opposition to Alexander Rodchenko and the October Association. ROPF members adopted eye-catching Constructivist methods of photographic abstraction such as bird’s-eye perspective and the tilted frame, but placed them in service of straightforwardly propagandistic, story-telling photographs. To produce this exposure, Shaikhet stepped back – or rather, up – from a winter-time military exercise in Red Square, thus giving spatial and social context to the abstract pattern spread out before his lens.

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