Alexandre Grinberg
Aleksandr Danilovich Grinberg (1885–1979) was a photographer. In 1908 he was awarded the silver medal in the all-Russian photo exhibition in Moscow and the gold medal in the international photo-exhibition in Dresden. Since 1929, the year of the "Great Break", with the turn in the Soviet politics toward arts, his erotic photography was declared inappropriate for Soviet morale, as a feature of the "overindulged idleness of the rich".
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Alexandre Grinberg
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- 1885 · Moscow.
- Died
- 1979 · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Occupation
- photographer · camera operator
- Education
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University
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Aleksandr Danilovich Grinberg (1885–1979) was a photographer. In 1908 he was awarded the silver medal in the all-Russian photo exhibition in Moscow and the gold medal in the international photo-exhibition in Dresden. Since 1929, the year of the "Great Break", with the turn in the Soviet politics toward arts, his erotic photography was declared inappropriate for Soviet morale, as a feature of the "overindulged idleness of the rich".
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Alexandre Grinberg (1885–1979) was a camera operator and photographer, of Soviet nationality. The camera operator was born and died in Moscow.
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His works came under increasing criticism in the context of government views of socialist morality. Nevertheless, he risked exhibitions of semi-naked women, and was eventually sentenced to Gulag labor camps (1936–1939) "for distribution of pornography".
• 1921 — Story of Seven Who Were Hanged • 1926 — A Descendant of an Arab • 1927 — Three Friends and an Invention
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Russie. Le photographe russe, cameraman Greenberg Alexander Danilovich. 1904.
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- 1.Гринберг Александр – Современные фотохудожники – Изобразительное искусство. art.rin.ru.
- 2.Alexander D. Grinberg (1885-1979). 2007-03-06.
- 3.Alexander Grinberg's gallery.
- 4.Александр (Абрам) Гринберг. Кино-Театр.РУ. 16 March 2019.
- 5.Gao, Yunxiang. Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century. University of North Carolina Press. 186. 2021. 9781469664606.
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