Song Without Words by Leah Bendavid-Val

Song Without Words by Leah Bendavid-Val

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Summary

A glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband Leo Tolstoy set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia

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Song Without Words by Leah Bendavid-Val

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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9781426201738
ISBN 10 1426201737
Title Song Without Words
Author Leah Bendavid-Val
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher National Geographic Society
Year published 2007-09-18
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.