URSS en Construction, L'Usine de Construction. - 1936

1936. TROSHIN, N.S and Max ALPERT. URSS en Construction. L'Usine de Construction de Wagons de l'Oural. (1936 #7). 38 pp. Folio, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1936. A fine copy of one of many monographic issues of this landmark periodical, devoted to a massive installation for making railway wagons, photgraphed by Max Alpert. As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet photo-journalists and graphic designers. Amongst the photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers included Nikolai Troshin, El Lissitzky, Sophie Kueppers, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitzky, Rodchenko and others -- the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on -- were developed in URSS en Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century." It was published in Russian, French, English and German. This is the French version. In fine condition. Parr and Badger, The Photobook I, 148-149.