Add to favorite
 

   

 Alexander  Greenberg


Outstanding photographer of the early 20th century, a classic of pictorialism

      

Alexander Greenberg (1885-1979) was a talented pictorialist and a man of remarkable destiny.
He was born in Moscow in the late 19th century, graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the MSU and Stroganov Art School. At the beginning of the 20th century he became involved with photography, and in 1907 became a member of the Russian Photographic Society.
Alexander Greenberg participated in World War I and was taken prisoner of war by the Germans for a few years.
In 1914 he organized a photo department at Khanzhonkov Film Studio  (Moscow) and took up working as a cameraman there.
From 1923 Alexander Greenberg was a teacher at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). From 1925 to 1928 he was a cameraman of the State Cinema (Soviet Cinema) Factory.
Among various styles and trends widespread in photoart of the early 20th century, pictorialism enjoyed special popularity. This style being in accord with the mystical atmosphere of  the Silver Age found fertile ground in Russia.
Alexander Greenberg was one of the most vivid and gifted Russian pictorialists and enjoyed extraordinary popularity. From 1910 to 1930 his works were displayed in nearly every large photo salon and won several prizes at international exhibitions in Europe, Asia and America.
In the Soviet era the artist famous for erotic pictorialism was accused of pornography, arrested and condemned by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. The photographer was released in 1939 and rehabilitated in the 1950s.
Alexander Greenberg perfectly mastered the technique of noble photographic printing, such as bromoil and gum arabic, but in the mid 1930s he extended away from bromoils and came to the conclusion that the creative element can express itself without sophisticated processing of a picture. Thus he formulated the idea and term of "pure photography".
 


Tags: Alexander Greenberg Russian Photographers    








Comment on our site


RSS   twitter      submit


Ïàðòåð


TAGS:
Exhibitions in Saint Petersburg  Russian gadgets  Exhibition Fairs  Russian souvenirs  Russian secret agency  Nobel Prize  Russian scientists  Minister of Economic Development  helicopter crash  Russian tourists  Myriapods  FIFA Russia 2018  International space station  Day of Russian Cinema  Moscow Museum Reserves  St. Petersburg  Russian tourism  transfer to Sochi Airport  Russian football team  Painting  Internet of Things  Russian universities  Bolshoy Theatre  Slavs  Russian business  Film Festivals  Moscow restaurants  Moscow traffic jams  Alexey Ulyukayev  Russian Cinema  Russian economy  Platonov's Festival of Arts  Transportation  Moscow  Alexander Kerzhakov  Festivals in Saint Petersburg  Moscow Coffee Festival  Barnaul  travel to Russia  Adyghe people  Fairs in Moscow  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia  Primorsky Territory  Russian artists  Russian railway  Russian retail industry  Modern Art  Russian science  Novaya Gazeta  Exhibitions in Moscow 


Travel Blogs
Top Traveling Sites