Zimmerli Museum Explores Soviet Photography in ’70s and ’80s – NYTimes.com

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Outsider Images in the Soviet Twilight

An exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick explores the work of four Soviet photographers in the decades before Communism fell.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17artsnj.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

American visitors to “Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-1980s,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, may be surprised to discover that photography was not officially considered art in the former Soviet Union. It was regarded as a documentary tool at the service of Communist Party propaganda.