Arkady Shaikhet
Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station

Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station

© 1925 The Estate of Arkady Shaikhet

Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station
Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station
ArtistRussian, 1898–1959
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Inauguration of the Shaturskaya Power Station
Date1925
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 6 in. (19.7 × 15.2 cm)
Mount: 9 1/8 × 6 15/16 in. (23.1 × 17.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2234
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, April 5–August 22, 2011.

"Utopia/ Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 11–June 10, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso in pencil upper center of sheet four lines in Russian(?) and perhaps a signature,bottom edge more Russian characters and a date"1925","MH 11",recto right border of mount in ink "110MM",in pencil "56"

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