David King (photo historian)

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David King (born April 30, 1943 in London ; † May 11, 2016 in London ) was a British designer and photo historian. From 1965 to 1975 he was head of art at London's Sunday Times Magazine . Since then he has published numerous illustrated books. His private collection of Russian revolutionary art, with 250,000 objects - mainly posters, newspapers, pamphlets and photographs - is one of the largest and most important in the world.

Works (selection)

  • I am king: a photographic biography of Muhammad Ali . 1975, ISBN 0140040889
  • Alexander Rodchenko . 1979, ISBN 0-905836-12-X
  • Blood & laughter: caricatures from the 1905 revolution . 1983, ISBN 0224021559
  • Isaac Deutscher & David King: The Great Purges . 1984, ISBN 0631139230
  • Trotsky: a photographic biography . 1986, ISBN 063114689X
  • Stalin's retouching, photo and art manipulation in the Soviet Union . 1997, ISBN 3930908336
  • Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin . 2010, ISBN 3886340910
  • Russian Revolutionary Posters: Civil War and Bolshevik Period, Socialist Realism and Stalin Era . 2012, ISBN 3886340988
  • Ordinary citizens: the victims of Stalin . 2012, ISBN 978-3-88634-128-3
  • The commissioners leave. The falsification of photographs and works of art in Stalin's Soviet Union . Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 2015. ISBN 3320023136 (Revised and supplemented new edition of Stalin's retouching, photo and art manipulation in the Soviet Union )
  • with Ernst Volland : John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon . Tate Publishing 2015, ISBN 978-1849761840

Awards

  • Banister Fletcher Award 2010 for Red Star Over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union

reception

  • In the Face of Death / a film by Gabrielle Pfeiffer . Based on the book "The commissar vanishes" by David King, 51 min., ZDF 2004
  • Music for David King's Book The Commissar Vanishes . An album by composer Michael Nyman from 1999.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David North : David King 1943-2016: Revolutionary Socialist, Artist and Fighter for Historical Truth Obituary on wsws.org of May 17, 2016 (German, accessed May 17, 2016).
  2. ↑ http://www.wsws.org/de/2010/dez2010/king-d24.shtml
  3. ↑ Description of the film "In the Face of Death" (accessed on May 18, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME King, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British designer and photo historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2016
Place of death London