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Podshipniki [i.e. Ball Bearings]

[TELINGATER, Solomon (1903-1969), book design, and Khlebnikov, Alexandr (1897-1979), photography]

Item #844

N.d. 240 pp., 24.5 x 17cm. The cover is slightly rubbed, corners are bumped otherwise very good.

Trade catalog of Soyuzpodshipniksbyt (State Ball Bearings Distribution Trust), a book that provides detailed listings of company products. A deluxe edition, hardbound, upper board with silver lettering and an embossed figurative design.
Moscow photographer Alexander Khlebnikov had won a number of major statewide competitions, and was a friend of Rodchenko and Stepanova. Like his teacher B. Podluzhsky, Khlebnikov sought to treat photography as an applied art, and is considered one of the pioneers of Soviet advertising photography.
Solomon Telingator was the student and follower of El Lissitskiy and one of the most important book designers of the 1930s. His famous book ‘The quality steel’ came out in 1935 and the deluxe version of that album featured the steel portrait of Stalin and the steel plaque on the cover. ‘Podshipniki’ was created in the same technique.

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