from Part II - New York and the Eastern States
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2024
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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