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'Snapshots of the Soul' considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image.

Russian poetry --- Literature and photography --- History and criticism. --- History --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Poetry and photography, 20th Century Russian poetry, Marina Tsvetaeva, BorisPasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Bella Akhmadulina. --- Photography in literature. --- History.