PARIS, FRANCE.- Passage de Retz presents A Visual Weapon. Soviet Photomontages 1917-1953, on view through January 7, 2007. This exhibition shows how the changing style of Russian photomontages reflects changes in the political system and daily life in the Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution until Stalin's death in 1953. It is in three parts: photomontages by great Soviet artists from the 1920s and '30s (Rodchenko, El Lissitsky, Galadzev, Tereshenko and Stepanova); anonymous photomontages used in schools and factories; and photomontages dating from World War II. Curators : Olga Slibova, Director of the Moscow House of Photography, and Michel Levin.