L’obliquité et l’empaquetage : deux procédés novateurs dans la photographie soviétique des années 1920-1930 et leur application par Boris Ignatovitch

Olga Ivanova : “Obliquity and compacting” : two innovating procedures in soviet photography in the 1 920’s and how Boris Ivanovitch used them Boris Ignatovitch started as a photograph in post-revolutionary Russia. At the end of the 1920’s, with other artists, among them Rodchenko, he concentrated on finding new photographic procedures, that is obliquity and compacting. These innovations were soon accused of formalism by the ideological commissions of the reigning power. The polemic took place in 1931-1932, between the October groups and the “ROPF”. The interpretation of photography takes the upper hand over its inner qualities. After the decree of April 23th 1932, and the emergency of socialist realism, the use of obliquity and compacting is banished from soviet photographic language. Boris Ignatovitch is compelled to keep to themes and ways of representation imposed by the propaganda of the Party.
Ivanova Olga. L’obliquité et l’empaquetage : deux procédés novateurs dans la photographie soviétique des années 1920-1930 et leur application par Boris Ignatovitch. In: Histoire de l'art, N°52, 2003. Noir et blanc. pp. 57-68.