Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors

by Katherine M H Reischl

Photography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid proliferation challenged the other arts, including painting and literature, as well as the very integrity of the self. If Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky greeted the camera with skepticism in the nineteenth century, numerous twentieth-century authors welcomed it with a warm embrace. As Katherine M. H. Reischl shows in Photographic Literacy, authors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501724363
• ISBN13: 9781501724367
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher