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Illiustrirovannaia gazeta (Illustrated Newspaper). 1938-41, complete with 97 numbers in 94 issues. A profusely photo illustrated general interest publication. Pravda. Moscow. Tirage, 75,000 and 12 pp. from 1938 to 1940 #18, then 150,000 and 8 pp. from 1940 #19 to last issue, 1941 #30. 18 1/2 x 12 1/4". Contributing designers and photographers include Lissitzky, Zhitomirsky, Shaikhet and Debabov.
Illiustrirovannaia gazeta began publication in June 1938, succeeding the photo newspaper, Stroim, that ceased publication in May 1938. "The founding editor (of Illiustrirovannaia gazeta) was Evgeniia Ezhova, the wife of Nikolai Ezhov, head of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, the Soviet secret police force...During the 1930s Ezhova established an elite salon and became involved in a variety of publishing activities...joining the editorial board of SSSR na Stroike (USSR in Construction)...Pravda and Obshchestvennitsa (Civic-Minded Woman)."
"Like Stroim, Illiustrirovannaia gazeta was a large-format photographic newspaper richly illustrated with numerous images and striking layouts."
Illiustrirovannaia gazeta ended publication as a general interest publication in July 1941 and was followed in August 1941 by the wartime publication, Frontovaia Illiustratsiia. In 1947, Illiustrirovannaia gazeta returned as the title but remained as a military publication.
[See, Erika Wolf, Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War. Art Institute of Chicago. (2016) at pp. 30-31, 38, 59 and 350.]
Condition overall is exceptional, Near Fine. Price for the group, $12,500.
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