• El Lissitzky (photographer)
• A. Mordvinov (role unspecified)

Exterior view of the Head Post Office under construction, Kharkov, Soviet Union (now in Ukraine)

25 November 1928

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 8.5 x 22.9 cm

PH1986:1047

• exterior view

inscribed, signed and dated - by the architect, in pen and red ink, on the print, verso, u.c.: "Gunta Stolzl / AMordvinov, / Khar'kov 25/XI 28 g."; and in graphite, t.: "WH" [circled]; u.r.: "Bezeichrs El Lissitzky / für g. Stölzl"; and l.l.: "11/XI29g ?" stamped - in purple ink, on the print, verso, u.l.: "ATEL'E / FOTOGRAFA / SHteinmana / ul. Karla Libknekhta No 8, / b. Sumskaia, Khar'kov" [STUDIO / OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER / Shteinman / Karl Libknekht St. 8, / f[ormer]. Sumskaia Street, Kharkow] [upside down] imprinted - in the image, u.c.: "XI"; "XI ZHOVTEN' XI" [XI OCTOBER XI]; c.: "MY BUDUEMO SOTSIALIZM I ZBUDUEMO" [WE ARE BUILDING SOCIALISM AND WE WILL BUILD IT]; on banners at c.l: "SCHYRO VITAEMO PREDSTAVNYKIV PROLETARS'KOGO TSENTRU RADIANS'KOGO SOUZU ROBITNYKIV CHERVONOÏ MOSKVY" [WE WELCOME THE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE PROLETARIAN CENTER OF THE SOVIET UNION WORKERS FROM THE RED MOSCOW] and "[?] REBENKU. ORGANIZUITE POMOSCH' [illeg.] IACHEIKI O-VA / "DRUZEI DETEI" [[?] TO A CHILD. ORGANIZE HELP [illeg.] DIVISION OF THE S[OCIE]TY] "FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN"]; and c.r.: "ZHOVTE[?]" [OCTOBE[R]]

Kharkov; Ukraine;

• architecture

• post office