Alexander Grinberg (1885-1979)

Alexander D. Grinberg is one of the most respected Russian photographers of the twentieth century.  By the age of twenty-two he was an active member of the Russian photographic society, where he became a leading creative force. 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, which signaled the recognition of his talents on an international level.

In the 1920's his cinematographic experience led him to become an instructor at the state technical institute of cinematography where he began his association with Sergey Eisenstein who he photographed. His prestige was on the rise throughout the 1920s until 1929 when, under the storm of the Cultural Revolution the "old school" of soviet photography came under fire as "depraved", and Grinberg fell out of favor.

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