| Alexander Grinberg Female nude 1926 Gelatin silver print, sepia-toned 26.8 x 15 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions 2 December 2015, 19th-21st Century Photography, Lot: 4218 LL/62516 The Russian photographer and cinematographer Alexander Danilovich Grinberg was one of the greatest Russian pictorialist photographers who fell out of favor because his nude studies were considered stylistically subversive during the Stalin period. In 1936 he was arrested and sentenced to five years in a NKVD prison camp based on his "distribution of pornography".
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