"Paper Faktura: Eleazar Langman’s Innovative Photography in the Context of the Early Soviet Debates ..."

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Date:
22.05.2023
Time:
18:00
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School of Arts and Cultural Heritage

On 22 May at 18.00 MSK (UTC/GMT+3) the seminar on photography studies at the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage will host the online talk of researcher Angelina Lucento "Paper Faktura: Eleazar Langman’s Innovative Photography in the Context of the Early Soviet Debates About the Politics of Painting and Mass Reproduction, 1928–1938".

In the late 1930s, the Moscow-based, avant-garde photographer Eleazar Langman (1895–1940) traveled to the Donbass region of Soviet Ukraine to shoot a series of images about the everyday lives of Soviet miners, which he made into an album entitled Socialist Donbass that was mass produced by the publishers of the weekly photo-magazine Ogonyok. Known for his ability to capture the unique affects of the socialist body both at work and at play, Langman’s Donbass album constituted his most significant and most accessible work on paper. While scholars have recently begun to devote attention to the uniqueness of Langman’s avant-garde photography, no one has yet considered his particular understanding of the specific role that the materiality of paper plays in the creation of both stand-alone photographic images and their mass reproduced counterparts in photo-books and periodicals. Through its analysis of Socialist Donbass this paper shows how Langman, through his unique emphasis on the paper aspect of photography, created an avant-garde aesthetic capable of expressing the emotional and sensual experiences of the human body more intensely and immediately than that of his contemporaries.

The seminar's participants are avised to read the following article prior to the seminar: “Photography’s New Materiality?” available by the following link: Photography’s New Materiality? | Photoworks

Angelina Lucento is an assistant professor of history and art history at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Trained as a social art historian, she studies the global histories of painting and photography, with a specific focus on the contributions that artists from the former USSR made to those histories. Lucento is completing her first book, The Socialist Surface: Painting as the Source of Soviet Media Culture, 1918-1941.

The lecture will be delivered in English. Online participation is possible — please register to receive the Zoom link. Registration

Angelina Lucento is an assistant professor of history and art history at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Trained as a social art historian, she studies the global histories of painting and photography, with a specific focus on the contributions that artists from the former USSR made to those histories. She has published articles in Cahiers du Monde russe, Performance Research, The Russian Review, Kritika, and caa.reviews. Lucento is completing her first book, The Socialist.

Surface: Painting as the Source of Soviet Media Culture, 1918-1941.