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This exhibition highlights the photographic production of several classic Russian authors. The accompanying text provides context for the writers’ literary and photographic work. Featured writer-photographers include Countess Sophia Tolstoy, Leonid Andreev, Ilya Ilf, and Ilya Ehrenburg. The photo-textual collaboration of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Aleksandr Rodchenko is also included as an example of the reciprocal development of literature and photography in the early twentieth century.