SOVIET MASTERPIECES
Overview
A selection of works by the following Soviet photographers:
MAX ALPERT | DMITRI BALTERMANTS | LEV BORODULIN | SEMYON FRIDLYAND | MIKHAIL GRACHEV | SAMARY GURARY | BORIS IGNATOVICH | YEVGENY KHALDEY | YAKOV KHALIP | ALEXANDER KHLEBNIKOV | MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG | VLADISLAV MIKOSHA | ALEXANDER RODCHENKO | YAKOV RYUMKIN | ARKADY SHAIKHET | IVAN SHAGIN | ARKADY SHISHKIN | IGOR SNEGIREV | NIKOLAY SVISCHOV-PAOLA
Featured Exhibitions

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Lilya Brik, 1924
Gelatin silver print

MAX ALPERT
Hunting with Golden Eagle, Kazakhstan, 1930s
Vintage gelatin silver print

LEV BORODULIN
Pyramid, Moscow, 1954
Vintage gelatin silver print

SEMYON FRIDLYAND
In GUM, Moscow, 1930
Gelatin silver print

SEMYON FRIDLYAND
Volzhanocka (Girl from the Volga region), 1930s
Gelatin silver print

MIKHAIL GRACHEV
Agriculture in War Years, Schoolgirls Help Collective Farms, 1941
Vintage gelatin silver print

SAMARY GURARY
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Yalta, 1945
Gelatin silver print

SAMARY GURARY
W. Churchill Visits Moscow, 1942
Vintage gelatin silver print

BORIS IGNATOVICH
Height, 1929
Gelatin silver print

BORIS IGNATOVICH
In Shower, 1935
Gelatin silver print

EVGENIY KHALDEY
Banner of Victory, Berlin, May 1945
Vintage gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
9th May, The Red Square, Moscow, 1945
Gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
Concert (Conservatory)
Vintage gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
On Guard, 1937, printed before 60s
Gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
Party and Government leaders go to the Red Square on 1st May, Red Square, Moscow, 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
Thurst (Drink), 1950
Vintage gelatin silver print

YAKOV KHALIP
Torpedo, The Baltic Fleet, 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print

ALEKSANDR KHLEBNIKOV
Still-life “Milk”, 1926
Gelatin silver print

MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
Outstanding miner of Donbass, Nikita Izotov, 1934, printed C. 1960
Gelatin silver print

MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1926, printed in 80s
Gelatin silver print

VLADISLAV MIKOSHA
Morning Exercise, 1937
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Balconies, 1925
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Diver
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Dynamo Sports Club
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Evgenia Lemberg with Photo Camera, 1934
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Fire Escape
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Girl with Leica, 1934,
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Mayakovsky
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
On the Balcony, 1928
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Osip Brik, 1924
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Pioneer Girl, 1930
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Portrait of Mother, 1924
Gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
Early gelatin silver print

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Vadim Kovigin
Early gelatin silver print

YAKOV RYUMKIN
For Communication with Space
Vintage gelatin silver print

YAKOV RYUMKIN
Germany, Berlin, May, 1945
Gelatin silver print

YAKOV RYUMKIN
In Moscow Sky, 1951
Vintage gelatin silver print

NIKOLAY SVISCHOV-PAOLA
Dancer, Moscow, 1920
Gelatin silver print

NIKOLAY SVISCHOV-PAOLA
Model with a ball, Moscow, 1920s
Gelatin silver print

IVAN SHAGIN
Sports Parade, Red Square, Moscow, 1932
Gelatin silver print

BORIS IGNATOVICH
Youth, 1937
Vintage gelatin silver print

IGOR SNEGIREV
Yuri Gagarin, April, 1961
Vintage gelatin silver print