URSS en Construction, 15th Anniversary of Kazakhstan.

1936. RODCHENKO, A. and Varvara STEPANOVA. URSS en Construction. Est Consacaré au 15 Anniversaire du Kazakstan. No 11. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Folio, 415 x 292 mm., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a recent blue cloth box. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1935. A fine copy of one of the issues of this landmark periodical designed by Rodchenko and Stepanova. As Martin Parr says, "From 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet photo-journalists and graphic designers. Amongst the photographers were Max Alpert, Arkadi Shaikhet, Georgi Zeima, Boris Ignatovich, Semen Fridland and Georgi Shaikhet. Designers included (truncated) El Lissitzky, Sophie Kueppers, Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova. All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitzky, Rodchenko and others -- the elaborate photomontages, innovative photography, fold-out pages, transparent overlays and so on -- were developed in URSS en Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century." It was published in Russian, French, English, and German. This is the French version. In fine condition. Parr and Badger, The Photobook I, 148-149. (Inventory #: 123885)