1. Max Zakharovich Penson was a Russian-Jewish photojournalist and photographer of the Soviet Union noted for his photographs of Uzbekistan.
11 Facts About Max Penson
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Max Penson is one of the most prominent representatives of Uzbek and Soviet-era photography, especially Russian avant-garde, revered by prominent figures like Sergei Eisenstein.
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Max Penson was born into a poor bookbinder's Jewish family in 1893 in the small town of Velizh in Vitebsk Governorate.
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Max Penson soon moved to Vilno where he enrolled in the art school of S N Yuzhanin.
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Max Penson became the director and taught draftsmanship to 350 Uzbek children studying at the school.
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Max Penson moved to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent and from 1926 through to 1949 worked for the largest newspaper in Central Asia, the Pravda Vostoka.
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Max Penson's images were widely circulated by the Soviet news agency TASS and in 1933 his photographs featured in an extensive volume exploring economic progression in the Soviet Union entitled, USSR: Under Construction.
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In 1940 Max Penson met Sergei Eisenstein who said of him:.
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In 1948 the increase in anti-Semitism under pressure by Joseph Stalin forced Max Penson to leave his 25-year-long position with the Pravda Vostoka.
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Max Penson's grandson, Maxime Penson, is a prominent commercial photographer, publisher, designer, and entrepreneur in Tashkent.
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The latest exhibitions of Max Penson's works were at the Russian Cultural Centre, from 30 November to 2 December 2010 and at Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City from 5 April to 13 May 2011.