<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>All Eyes on Russia: Margaret Bourke-White's Early Soviet Photographs</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Johnson, Josie Rose</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Nickel, Douglas</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">Advisor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Shaffer, Holly</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Sichel, Kim</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="corporate"><mods:namePart>Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:originInfo><mods:copyrightDate>2020</mods:copyrightDate></mods:originInfo><mods:physicalDescription><mods:extent>xxiii, 570 p.</mods:extent><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin></mods:physicalDescription><mods:note type="thesis">Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2020</mods:note><mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre><mods:abstract>In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of improving Soviet-American relations and increased experimentation with photography as a mass medium. Despite her self-proclaimed ignorance of Soviet life, lands, and politics, Bourke-White capitalized on these favorable conditions and returned twice more in 1931 and 1932, creating a suite of images that would be published and exhibited extensively across the United States and around the world. &#13;
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This dissertation examines the production and dissemination of Bourke-White’s Soviet photographs through various channels. Through close study of these photographic objects alongside rich archival records from Bourke-White and her broad circle of contacts, I situate these photographs between the American traditions of pictorialist photography and documentary photography, on the one hand, and their supposed political and stylistic opposites of the Russian Avant-Garde and Socialist Realism on the other. This survey reveals how Bourke-White’s striving for stylistic innovation and political neutrality left her photographs open to a wide variety of interpretations as they traversed disparate ideological and aesthetic contexts.&#13;
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Organized chronologically, each chapter focuses on a different photographic medium from this body of work. Chapter One examines how American and Soviet magazines reframed Bourke-White’s Soviet photographs to serve different political readings. Chapter Two details the creation and reception of Bourke-White’s first book, Eyes on Russia (1931), explaining how she and her audiences primarily conceived of the book as artistic and apolitical. Chapter Three turns to newspapers, centering on Bourke-White’s six-part series on Soviet life in the New York Times (1932), to illustrate her increasing involvement in political activity. Chapter Four uncovers the troubled histories of Bourke-White’s final Soviet projects from this period, each released in 1934: a film, photomurals, and a deluxe print portfolio. Each of these three projects became mired in issues related to production costs, public accessibility, perceived political meanings, and minimal returns on investment. In the Conclusion, I consider the complex agency of both the photographs and the photographer in constructing and preserving history from the 1930s into the post-Soviet era.</mods:abstract><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01411641"><mods:topic>Periodicals</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01204155"><mods:topic>United States</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01061714"><mods:topic>Photography</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01207312"><mods:topic>Russia</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01919950"><mods:topic>Photobooks</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01210281"><mods:topic>Soviet Union</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject><mods:topic>interwar</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01177159"><mods:topic>Women artists</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01062022"><mods:topic>Photojournalism</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01078957"><mods:topic>Propaganda</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01423814"><mods:topic>Newspapers</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01904263"><mods:topic>Photomurals</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:recordInfo><mods:recordContentSource authority="marcorg">RPB</mods:recordContentSource><mods:recordCreationDate encoding="iso8601">20210607</mods:recordCreationDate></mods:recordInfo><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">dissertations</mods:typeOfResource></mods:mods>