Soviet Factography : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226234861 : 022623486X : 01 Oct 2024 : A study of Soviet factography, an avant-garde movement that employed photography, film, journalism, and mass media technologies.   This is the first major English-language study of factography, an avant-garde movement of 1920s modernism. Devin Fore charts this style through the work of its key figures, illuminating factography's position in the material culture of the early Soviet period and situating it as a precursor to the genre of documentary that arose in the 1930s. Factographers employed photography and film practices in their campaign to inscribe facts and to chronicle modernization as it transformed human experience and society. Fore considers factography in light of the period's explosion of new media technologies-including radio broadcasting, sound in film, and photo-media innovations-that allowed the press to transform culture on a massive scale.   This theoretically driven stud