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20 December 2006
The British Journal Of Photography
Genius uncovered
Simon Bainbridge
Max Penson’s singular fascination with Uzbekistan is reason enough for his relative obscurity. But although his work was known and praised by Sergey Eisenstein, among others, his contribution to Soviet Modernism was largely forgotten until his re-emergence a decade ago, nearly 40 years after his death.
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14 December 2006
The Jerusalem Post
Photos nearly erased by Stalin's anti-Semitism reemerge in former USSR
Alexander Osopovich
Max Penson has made a comeback nearly a half-century after his death. At the height of his fame, the Jewish photojournalist's work appeared often on the front pages of Soviet newspapers. One of his pictures took a top prize at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.
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27 November 2006
The Art Newspaper
Roman Abramovich funds London exhibition
The Art Newspaper
The London-based Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, 39, is funding an exhibition of photographs by Max Penson (1893-1959) opening on 29 November at the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House in London. Several Russian oligarchs based in St Petersburg and Moscow have
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29 September 2006
The Moscow Times
Image
Alexander Osipovich
This image of an Uzbek school in the 1920s went on display last week at Galeyev Gallery.
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25 January 1998
The New York Times
Chronicle of an Upheaval the World Couldn't See
Stephen Kinzer
THE 20TH-CENTURY HISTORY of this ancient Central Asian land has unfolded largely behind a curtain of silence drawn by rulers of the Soviet Union. Their radical transformation of a highly traditional feudal society into a modern Soviet republic is a stirring but almost unknown story.
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