Russian/Eurasian Studies Program, Human Rights Program, Center for Civic Engagement, BGIA, Art History and Visual Culture Program, and The Bard Russian Club Present
The Group Photo and the “Policy of Disappearance” in Stalin’s Russia
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Olin Humanities, Room 102
The Bard Human Rights Lecture series
Dr. Denis Skopin, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The aim of this lecture is to analyze from the political and aesthetic perspective the phenomenon of the elimination of the “public enemies” from group photos in Russia during the Stalin era. The analysis has as its empirical starting point photographs we have discovered in the course of research in the archives of several Russian cities. All these photos bear traces of editing, whether that be various marks such as blacking out, excisions or inscriptions left by the Stalin’s police.Dr. Denis Skopin, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102