Markov-Grinberg photograph of peasants from a farmers collective holding a sign
- Artwork Title
- Public letter to a slacker from a record breaking collective farmers, Stalingrad Region
- Date
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depiction:
1933
- Geography
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creation:
Stalingrad Region;
Volgograd (Russia)
- Language
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Russian
- Classification
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Photographs
- Category
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Artistic photography
- Object Type
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Photojournalism (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joanne and Will Potter
Photographic print of farmers carrying a sign, created in 1933 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.
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Markov-Grinberg photograph of a crane lowering a Soviet Star onto the Spasskaya Tower
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Markov-Grinberg photograph of 8 white horses pulling wagons in a barren landscape
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Photographic print of horses pulling carts, created in 1936 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.
Markov-Grinberg photograph of women athletes holding flags in Red Square
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Photographic print of women carrying flags in a procession in Moscow, created in 1935 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.
Markov-Grinberg photograph of an old sailor with whiskers in front of a boat of fishermen
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Photographic print of an elderly sailor and a boat load of fishermen, created in 1939 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.