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Auction archive: Lot number 54

ALPERT, MAX

Estimate
£1,000 - £2,000
ca. US$1,454 - US$2,908
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 54

ALPERT, MAX

Estimate
£1,000 - £2,000
ca. US$1,454 - US$2,908
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Kyrgyz Girl Leading in a Horse Racing Competition
Photographed and printed c. 1936. Provenance: Private collection, Europe. A distinguished Russian photographer, Max Alpert (1899–1980) was one of the pioneers of photo reportage. He studied photography in Odessa and worked before World War II for Rabochaya gazeta in Moscow. During the 1930s, he specialised in creating photographic series from construction sites for the periodical SSSR na stroike (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Turkestan-Siberia Railway, Great Fergana Canal). Alpert also worked for the daily Pravda , shooting predominantly photographic portraits of politicians, military leaders, writers and other luminaries. He is mostly known however for his frontline work during World War II as a photo correspondent for the state news agency TASS and the Soviet Information Bureau, when he produced a number of iconic war photographs, such as Combat (1942). He documented military events in Prague and Berlin and the Victory Parade in Moscow in June 1945.

Auction archive: Lot number 54
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2016
Auction house:
MacDougall Arts Ltd.
33 St. James's Square
London, SW1Y 4JS
United Kingdom
info@macdougallauction.com
+44 (0)20 73898160
Beschreibung:

Kyrgyz Girl Leading in a Horse Racing Competition
Photographed and printed c. 1936. Provenance: Private collection, Europe. A distinguished Russian photographer, Max Alpert (1899–1980) was one of the pioneers of photo reportage. He studied photography in Odessa and worked before World War II for Rabochaya gazeta in Moscow. During the 1930s, he specialised in creating photographic series from construction sites for the periodical SSSR na stroike (Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Turkestan-Siberia Railway, Great Fergana Canal). Alpert also worked for the daily Pravda , shooting predominantly photographic portraits of politicians, military leaders, writers and other luminaries. He is mostly known however for his frontline work during World War II as a photo correspondent for the state news agency TASS and the Soviet Information Bureau, when he produced a number of iconic war photographs, such as Combat (1942). He documented military events in Prague and Berlin and the Victory Parade in Moscow in June 1945.

Auction archive: Lot number 54
Auction:
Datum:
21 May 2016
Auction house:
MacDougall Arts Ltd.
33 St. James's Square
London, SW1Y 4JS
United Kingdom
info@macdougallauction.com
+44 (0)20 73898160
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