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This handsome book analyzes the function of the photographic image in the Soviet Union between 1924 and 1937. Margarita Tupitsyn discusses the works of such major and little- known photographers as Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, Sergei Senkin, and others, showing how their approaches to photography were influenced by the changing social and political realities of Soviet Russia during this period.