Article ID: CBB769724948

Establishing Eye Contact with One Historical Photograph (July 2022)

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Kirill Chunikhin (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 63
Issue: 3
Pages: 599-602


Publication Date: July 2022
Edition Details: On the cover
Language: English

Viktor Bulla's photograph Pioneers' Defense can reveal insights beyond its subject matter. Documenting an historical event near Leningrad in 1937, the carefully staged photograph gives the impression, through the gas masks covering every face during a respiratory defense exercise, that the state provided good health care for its masses of citizens. Spreading this message through supposedly documentary images played an active role in Soviet biopolitics.

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Authors & Contributors
Rosanna Farbøl
Marie Cronqvist
Sylvest, Casper
Ziauddin, Silvia Berger
Marti, Sibylle
Brooks, Nathan M.
Journals
Technology and Culture
Cold War History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Kansas
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave
University of Minnesota Press
Concepts
Civil defense
Cold War
Sociotechnical imaginaries
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and war; technology and the military
Gas masks
People
László, Paul
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Switzerland
United States
Denmark
Europe
Institutions
United States Air Force (USAF)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
Physicians for Social Responsibility
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