The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia is a 1997 book by David King about the censoring of photographs and fraudulent creation of "photographs" in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union through silent alteration via airbrushing and other techniques.

2022年3月18日 · The commissar vanishes : the falsification of photographs and art in Stalin's Russia by King, David, 1943-

2018年7月15日 · The book is called “ The Commissar Vanishes.” The title is, incongruously, literal. Its specific reference is to a photograph, from 1919, of a second-anniversary celebration of the October...

Did the Stalinists want their readers to see that elimination had taken place, as a fearful and ominous warning? Or could the slightest trace of an almost vanished commissar, deliberately left...

The Commissar Vanishes, the late David King’s visual history of the falsification of images as a means of propaganda in the Soviet Union, explores how Stalin manipulated photography to erase all memory of his victims.

1997年10月30日 · People who vanished in real life—whether banished to the farthest reaches of the Soviet Union or eliminated by the secret police—vanished as well from photos, and even paintings. In many cases they were airbrushed out completely, in others their faces were clumsily blacked out with ink.

1997年11月7日 · The lost images were of citizens who had been purged, imprisoned, or executed during Joseph Stalin's regime. (STATIONS: "The Commissar Vanishes" is published by Metropolitan Books.)