Margaret Bourke-White
Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin

Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin

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Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin
Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Ekaterina Dzhugashvili: Mother of Joseph Stalin
Date1932
Place depictedTbilisi, Georgia
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 13 × 19 1/8 in. (33 × 48.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/16 in. (50.5 × 35.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, museum purchase funded by the Photography Subcommittee in honor of the wedding of Michael H. and Michele Sharney Marvins
Object number89.21
Not on view

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Description

Margaret Bourke-White characterized
her trip through the mountain villages of Soviet Georgia in 1932 as "the
most exciting trip of my life." It was her third consecutive trip to Russia,
but the first time she was given previously denied access to Tiflis, the home
of Stalin's mother, Madame Dzhugashvili. Dressed in native Georgian women's
clothing, Madame Dzhugashvili expresses a look of bewilderment, perhaps over
her son's plans for Russia's future or why she should be the subject of an
American photographer. Bourke-White found that despite Dzhugashvili's age, she
was an extremely graceful person. "Her face was not beautiful, but the
features were well defined and the face full of character. One felt she might
have been very beautiful when she was young."




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