man of iron

MAN OF IRON

2006

series of 3 C-prints

100 x 80 cm


and a series of photographs 10x12 cm


Man of Iron is a photographic work about Yevgeni Jugashvili, the grandson and spitting image of Joseph Stalin. In 2006 I visited him in Tbilisi, where I made a video and a photographic work.


In the photographs I investigate the visual language of propaganda by means of the image of Stalin's grandson.

Yevgeni Jugashivili does not only look like Stalin,

he adores him too, allthough he never met him.


The work consists of photographs from Yevgeni's family photo album, well known public images of Joseph Stalin, as well as filmstills from a movie in which Yevgeni played his grandfather.



kr-ploshad-2
doublespeak 175
kino22
kiekje3
doublespeak 114
doublespeak 115
doublespeak 68
1939-3400
kiekje6
*among photographers small
10.The Stalin that was played by me, 2006
stalin.3
Yevgeni and Jacov
kiekje4
eng jac mosk
right page top image
stalin side
example layout left
stalin smoking again
3.2
vb aanvraag small
03
kino25

Yevgeni adores Stalin even though Stalin sacrificed his own son, Yevgeni's father, during World WarII.

When Stalin was asked to trade his son for other prisoners of War, he refused, saying "I don't trade soldiers for officers".

Yevgeni's father Yacov (or Yasha) died and Yevgeni consequently never got to meet his own father. 

All he has are these photographs

13
18
60
30a
110
15
20
25a
31
42
64
12
99
22
26a
56
63
65
78
80
27
41
48
49
91
92
107
109
23
24
37
81
90
96
97
98
102
50
95
43
82

Yasha