Alpert Max Vladimirovich

Soviet photographer. Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR (1966). One of the founders of Soviet serial reportage photography. In the 1920s was a member of the association of photo reporters at the Moscow Press House. In the 1930s worked in the illustrated magazine “USSR at Construction”. He photographed construction projects and workers of the Soviet Union that were significant for the entire country: the plant in Magnitogorsk (Magnitka), the laying of the Turksib, the construction of the Great Fergana Canal, the series of photographs “Giant and Builder”. At the same time, he worked for the newspaper Pravda, where he photographed portraits of almost all major Soviet and many foreign politicians, military men, writers and chess players. In the 1940s worked as a correspondent for TASS Photo Chronicle and Sovinformburo, Alpert worked both in the rear and at the front, in combat situations. Author of the famous photograph “Combat”. Filmed the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Moscow. In the post-war years he collaborated in various publications. He was a leading photojournalist for the Novosti press agency. The works are kept in the collection of negatives of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia.