Books: Soviets by Camera

EYES ON RUSSIA—Margaret Bourke-White—Simon & Schuster ($5).

In 1930 Miss Bourke-White, expert camerawoman traveling free-lance with Governmental blessing, took 800 photographs in Soviet Russia. Artistically in love with her work, she took great pains, gave none. Happy posers said "Thank you" when her shutter clicked; one woman even wept for joy. The Russians "consider the artist an important factor in the Five-Year Plan, and the photographer the artist of the Machine Age." They appreciated Bourke-White. Starting as their photographer she soon became their comrade.

In Eyes on Russia, 32 selected pictures are accompanied by...