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H-SHERA Soviet Photography Exhibition and Upcoming Virtual Lecture (Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)

Discussion published by Maria Garth on Thursday, September 9, 2021

Dear colleagues,

I'm writing to invite you to visit the exhibition I curated at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ: Communism Through the Lens: Everyday Life Captured by Women Photographers in the Dodge Collection, now on view through October 17, 2021, in the Lower Level Dodge Gallery. The exhibition highlights the unique – and often overlooked – photographic innovations by women who shaped the history of photography during the 20th century. Drawn entirely from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Communism Through the Lens spans almost the entirety of the Soviet Union’s history, from the 1920s through the 1990s. It explores themes of political art, documentary photography, and gender, with more than 130 objects, the majority of which have never been exhibited in the United States.

You can also view the virtual presentation of the exhibition and the brochure/catalog on the Zimmerli's website: https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/node/128

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Zimmerli Art Museum welcomes Erika Wolf, Ph.D., who will present a virtual lecture on Soviet photography in print, focusing on the work of women photographers and artists.

Virtual Lecture: Dr. Erika Wolf on Soviet Photography

Friday, October 1, at 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern Time

All are welcome to this virtual event. Register here for the Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VuK6yZt7RWOzBUgGL9JnOg

An art historian with particular interest in modernism and modernity, Soviet visual culture, propaganda, and cross-cultural representation, Dr. Wolf is currently a professor at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen (Russia). A native New Yorker, from 2013 to 2018 she was an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago (New Zealand), where she taught since 2003. She completed a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Science in Human Affairs at Princeton University, after which she was a curatorial studies fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. After working several years at the Whitney, she took up graduate study at the University of Michigan, completing a doctorate in the History of Art and a master's degree in Russian & Eastern European Studies.

A recording will be available on the Zimmerli's YouTube channel after the event.

Citation: Maria Garth. Soviet Photography Exhibition and Upcoming Virtual Lecture (Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ). H-SHERA. 09-09-2021. https://networks.h-net.org/node/166842/discussions/8226627/soviet-photography-exhibition-and-upcoming-virtual-lecture Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-SHERA

Please email Maria Garth ([email protected]) with any questions.

Best,

Maria Garth

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History

Dodge Fellow, Zimmerli Art Museum

Rutgers University [email protected]

Related date: October 1, 2021