Москва 1930-х / Moscow in the 1930s
Москва 1930-х на фотографиях А.Д.Гринберга
Моscow in the 1930s in photographs by Alexander D. Grinberg
Music:
Waltz played here by the Variety Orchestra of the USSR
Aleksanr Danilovich Grinberg, born in 1885 and died in 1979 was a Russian and Soviet photographer, best known for his "erotic" photographs...
Since 1929, the year of the "Great Break", with the turn in the Soviet politics toward arts, his erotic photography was declared inappropriate for Soviet morals, as a feature of the "overindulged idleness of the rich". Nevertheless, he risked exhibitions of semi-naked women, and was eventually sentenced to a period in labor camps (1936–1939) "for distribution of pornography".
Still, here I present a series of his photographs of Moscow taken in the 1930s....