Book contents
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Promised Lands
- Part II New York and the Eastern States
- 5 Extraordinary Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- 6 Photographing New York
- 7 Dos
- 8 The Business of Pleasure
- 9 Black New York
- 10 Complex Hybrids
- 11 Squaring the Circle
- 12 The Apex of Middlebrow Culture
- Part III To the Pacific Ocean
- Part IV The Golden State
- Part V Journey’s End
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Photographing New York
from Part II - New York and the Eastern States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2024
Book contents
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Promised Lands
- Part II New York and the Eastern States
- 5 Extraordinary Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists
- 6 Photographing New York
- 7 Dos
- 8 The Business of Pleasure
- 9 Black New York
- 10 Complex Hybrids
- 11 Squaring the Circle
- 12 The Apex of Middlebrow Culture
- Part III To the Pacific Ocean
- Part IV The Golden State
- Part V Journey’s End
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 follows Ilf as he photographed New York City and analyzes the “New York” installment of the writers’ photo essay. It argues their photo essay resembled the work of the many Western and Soviet writers and photographers, who in the 1930s were experimenting with the hybrid documentary genre of the photo essay or photobook. Tracing the transnational networks that connected authors and photographers across the ideological divide, the chapter interprets Ilf and Petrov’s photo essay as a modernist documentary.
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- Soviet Adventures in the Land of the CapitalistsIlf and Petrov's American Road Trip, pp. 56 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024