
Song Without Words
The Photographs and Diaries of Sophia Tolstoy
Leah Bendavid-Val(Author)
National Geographic Society (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 18. September 2007
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4262-0173-8 (ISBN)
Description
Autobiographical in nature, yet global in its true scope, Song Without Wordsbrings to light the gifts of a major figure whose previously unknown works enrich our knowledge of literature, photography, and history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 211 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4262-0173-8 (9781426201738)
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Leah Bendavid-Val has worked with Russian photography since 1987 and is the author of two books on the subject- Propaganda & Dreams- Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US (1999); and Changing Reality- Recent Soviet Photography (1991). Bendavid-Val is also the author of two books on National Geographic photography- National Geographic- The Photographs (1994) and Stories on Paper & Glass (2001).
Bendavid-Val has curated photography exhibitions for the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and also for the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. She has written about photography for the Washinton Post and Aperture magazine, and teaches phtotography workshops at the Santa Fe Photography Workshops each year.
Bendavid-Val is Director of Photography Publishing for National Geographic Books and has edited more than two dozen photography books for National Geographic.
Bendavid-Val has curated photography exhibitions for the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., and also for the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow. She has written about photography for the Washinton Post and Aperture magazine, and teaches phtotography workshops at the Santa Fe Photography Workshops each year.
Bendavid-Val is Director of Photography Publishing for National Geographic Books and has edited more than two dozen photography books for National Geographic.