PENSON, Max - Max Penson. Photographer of the Uzbek Avant-Garde 1920s-1940s

Background information

"Beginning in 1924, Russian photojournalist Max PENSON traveled as a reporter through his adopted homeland of Uzbekistan, a country that in the early 20th century was a largely unknown part of the mysterious and fairy-tale Central Asia. The awakening from this fairy-tale world began in that very period, when Max PENSON took up his camera and recorded the upheaval of this ancient culture in fascinating pictorial reports. The photographs, which were found in an attic in 2009 and are shown for the first time in this publication, come from the previously unsifted estate of the photographer. Max PENSON, contemporary of Alexander RODCHENKO and friend of director Sergei Eisenstein, left behind a unique documentation of these changes.

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The black and white photographs in the book 'Max Penson. Photographer of the Uzbek Avant-Garde 1920s-1940s' provide insights into a time when the country had to break away from its centuries-old traditions as it was confronted with a new political-social structure. Like no other photographer of his generation, Max PENSON documented the profound changes in the country that had just been released from medieval social structures." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Arnoldsche, 2011)

About the Russian photographer, Max PENSON (1893-1959)

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