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Photographs by Mark Markov Grinberg

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2014 · Travel & Events

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Ретроспективная выставка советского фотографа
Марк Марков-Гринберг. 1907 - 2006 гг.
Часть 1
Фотографии 1930 - 1939

A retrospective exhibition of Soviet photographer
Mark Markov-Grinberg.1907 - 2006 
Part 1
Photographs  1930 - 1939

Mark Markov-Grinberg was born on November 27, 1907 in Rostov-on-Don. He belongs to the second generation of Soviet photojournalists.  He learned photography while in secondary school, his first job was in 1925 for the newspaper Soviet South. At that time he also freelanced for national illustrated magazine Ogonyok. Markov-Grinberg photographed Mayakovsky who visited Rostov in 1926. The same year Markov-Grinberg left Rostov for Moscow where initially he worked as a reporter for several trade union newspapers and the magazine Smena. In 1930 he received an offer to work for the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), there he was given a heavy Nettel 9 x 12 cm camera and traveled around the country. Markov-Grinberg photographs appeared in all major Soviet publications, including USSR in Construction. From 1931 he switched to Leica.  In 1934, Markov-Grinberg was commissioned to create a photo essay about a day in the life of the miner Nikita Izotov. Under the leadership of the Union Photo editor Mezhericher, Markov-Grinberg was to show a progressive man and a good life of Soviet miners. Markov-Grinberg lived for six months with the Izotov family to create an image of a Socialist hero. Izotov articles appeared in Soviet Photo throughout 1934. 

Music by  Alexander Borodin -" Barceuse" played here by Marco Rapetti

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