Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

381 381 c   (U.S.S.R.—FUNERAL) A large album containing 105 grim photographs documenting a Soviet-era funeral in a small village. An interesting look into the political culture and folk customs associated with the burial of an important Soviet “apparatchik.”With funeral scenes of crowds viewing the open casket, in which attendees closely examine the deceased, followed by carrying of the casket through the town center, and to the cemetery.This is all succeeded by a large and hearty looking meal.Also present are various telegraphs from government officials. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso to green board pages with memorial themed designs. Folio, black leatherette, with a mounted silver print and engraved memorial plaque. Circa 1957 [800/1,200] 382 c   (U.S.S.R.—MILITARY) An album entitled Memory of Service (in Cyrillic), comprising 78 photographs of Soviet naval cadets and captains. Depicting young, handsome sailors in various uniforms posing in fields and offices and goofing around with dogs, musical instruments, radios, military statues, and teddy bears, as well as posed studio portraits of the sailors and naval officers; with collaged Socialist imagery and artful period embel­ lishments in vividly-colored speckles and lines. Silver prints, the images measuring 1 1 / 2 x1 3 / 8 to 4 3 / 4 x8 1 / 8 inches (3.81x3.5 to 14.6x20.6 cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto/verso. 4to, red faux-fur boards with gold-colored metal laurel, anchor, and star appliqués on the covers. 1979-81 [500/750] 382