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Contributing Factors: Selections from Sovfoto

Jason Dunda

Karmen, R. Mme. Eliane Dardain, a Frenchwoman, was one of the prisoners in the Pomeranian camp for politicals. Mme. Dardain was arrested in Paris as the wife of a French general, an adherent of de Gaulle’s. n.d., gelatin silver print., 15 x 24 cm. Collection MacLaren Art Centre. Anonymous gift, 2001

Artist Jason Dunda presents photographs from the MacLaren’s Sovfoto Archive, a collection of 23,116 vintage Soviet press prints dating from the Stalinist period in Russia. Dunda utilized Sovfoto, as well as other international news agencies, in preparation for A Hall of Unflattering Portraits, his solo exhibition. Contributing Factors highlights Dunda’s singular eye and illuminates his working process.

Artist Jason Dunda presents photographs from the MacLaren’s Sovfoto Archive, a collection of 23,116 vintage Soviet press prints dating from the Stalinist period in Russia. Dunda utilized Sovfoto, as well as other international news agencies, in preparation for A Hall of Unflattering Portraits, his solo exhibition. Contributing Factors highlights Dunda’s singular eye and illuminates his working process.