Public photographic spaces: exhibitions of propaganda, from Pressa to The Family of Man, 1928-55

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Soviet Pavilion of the International press exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund (Pressa), 1928 -- Soviet Pavilion of the International film and photo exhibition of the Deutscher Werkbund, 1929 -- Soviet Pavilion of the International hygiene exhibition, 1930 -- German section of the Society of applied arts exhibition, 1930 -- German section of the Building Workers Union exhibition, 1931 -- Room O of the Exhibition of the Fascist revolution, 1932 -- The camera : exhibition of photography, printing and reproduction, 1933 -- Spanish Republic Pavilion of the International exhibition of arts and techniques in modern life, 1937 -- Road to victory : a procession of photographs of the nation at war, 1942 -- Power in the Pacific : battle photographs of our navy in action on the sea and in the sky, 1945 -- Parallel of life and art, 1953 -- The family of man, 1955. This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa, Film und Foto, etc); German, Italian and Spanish exhibitions in the 1930s, and exhibitions in MOMA during the Second World War.