Arkady Shaikhet
Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station

Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station

© 1928 The Estate of Arkady Shaikhet

Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station
Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station
ArtistRussian, 1898–1959
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 6 1/8 in. (21.6 × 15.6 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 1/16 in. (43.2 × 35.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Burt Nelson in memory of Peter C. Marzio
Object number2011.619
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Arkady
Shaikhet was the leading photojournalist for the Russian newspapers Krasnaya Niva and Moscow Proletarian. In 1924, he joined the staff of the national
magazine Ogonyok, where many of his photographs, including this one, were used
as cover images.





Shaikhet shot Assembling the Globe at Moscow Telegraph Central Station from a low
angle, making the figures appear larger than life, and set them against a metal
globe, the national emblem of the USSR. By merging the silhouetted figures of
the workers with the globe, Shaikhet infused the image with the socialist
agenda—the people for the state and the state for the people.


ProvenancePhotographer's family
Exhibition History"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 March - 10 June, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscriptions in ink and pencil on verso include his signature and title. See photocopies in Accession file of marks in Cyrillic.
Signed in pencil, ink, and stamped on verso - Cyrillic text

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