Among the Russian photographic artists, Alexander Danilovich Greenberg occupies one of the most honorable places. Born at the end of the 19th century and living in 94, he became a witness and a participant in the revolutionary events, the civil war, the two world wars, the Stalinist repressions, ideological persecutions and much more experienced by Russia during this time.
Since 1907 – a member of the Russian photographic society (RFF) in Moscow, since 1912 – one of its leaders. In 1909, he received the first gold medal at the international exhibition in Dresden.
He was one of the first movie operators at the famous Khanzhonkov studio and at the first state film factory, taught and headed the department at the State Institute of Cinematography.
At the 1935 exhibition, “Masters of the Soviet photography” in Moscow, sketches of the naked nature of Greenberg were exhibited, and in January 1936 “For the spread of pornography” he was arrested as a “socially dangerous element” and sentenced to five years of camps. In 1939, ahead of schedule …
Author
Musvik Victoria Alexandrovna
Editor
Khlebnova T.I.
Artist
DRENCHEVA N. G.
Publisher
Art-building, 2012
Series
Photo heritage
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