From vintage movie posters to fine art photography, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ latest exhibition delves into the relationship between art and politics, revisiting a compelling point in ...

“Art is the cognition of life in the form of sensual, imaginative contemplation. Like science, art give s objective truths; genuine art demands precision because it deals with the object, it is ...

Other recently digitized collections include photographs taken by two Americans living in a nascent Soviet Union, and a Union soldier’s private collection of cartes-de-visites of “Officers of Army and ...

When Alexander Rodchenko took the photograph “Pioneer Playing a Trumpet” in 1930, the Soviet Union had been, albeit briefly, a haven for photographers and filmmakers. The primary reason these art ...

Most view the relationship of Jews to the Soviet Union through the lens of repression and silence. Focusing on an elite group of two dozen Soviet-Jewish photographers, including Arkady Shaykhet, ...

In the late 1970s, three photographers -- Vladimir Vorobyov, Vladimir Sokolayev, and Aleksandr Trofimov -- got a job at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. Their ...

Painting versus photography : a battle of mediums in twentieth-century Russian culture / Konstantin Akinsha -- Soviet policy on photography / Elena Barkhatova -- The force of the medium : the Soviet ...

“The kids have this whole area as their playground,” photographer Ryan Koopmans said. He’s referring to the now abandoned sanatoriums of Tskaltubo, a small town 30 kilometers inland from the Georgian ...

This Soviet 'sniper' camera looks more like a rifle than a photography tool and once sold for $63,000!

Tkachenko—who won a World Press Photo First Prize for his series “Escape” and the European Publishers Award for Photography for the Restricted Areas series—wanted to document how the Soviet Union ...