[Georgy Zelma photographing a scene staged by El Lissitzky for an issue of USSR in Construction devoted to the fifteenth anniversary of the Red Army]

[Georgy Zelma photographing a scene staged by El Lissitzky for an issue of USSR in Construction devoted to the fifteenth anniversary of the Red Army]

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[Georgy Zelma photographing a scene staged by El Lissitzky for an issue of USSR in Construction devoted to the fifteenth anniversary of the Red Army]
CultureUnknown
Titles
  • [Georgy Zelma photographing a scene staged by El Lissitzky for an issue of USSR in Construction devoted to the fifteenth anniversary of the Red Army]
Date1931
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. (11.4 × 16.7 cm)
 Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 9/16 in. (11.4 × 16.7 cm)
 Mount: 5 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (13 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of William Broyles
Object number2010.1773
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Howard Schickler Fine Art, New York]; purchased by William Broyles, November 14, 2003; given to MFAH, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Cyrillic title and date marked in ink on verso and below image on mount: "1931"
Signed in ink on the mount, lower right below image

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