History Photography and Graphic Design

Cover for the periodical Poligraphic Production designed either by Stepanova or Rodchenko 1946. It's sometimes difficult to tell who did what on their work.

 

I look at this and wonder if that's a drum scanner or offset press rollers. The printing is much improved from the work done in the 1930's. And how did they do the shadow-highlight on the letterforms? There was no software in those days to use to develop special effects, just tools such as airbrush.

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