Alpert, Max (1899-1980), Russian photojournalist. After an apprenticeship in Odessa, Alpert served and photographed with the Red Army 1919-24, then settled in Moscow and worked for the magazine Rabochaya Gazeta, then Pravda. He covered both news events and the gigantic industrialization projects of the early Stalin period, sometimes in regions as remote as Uzbekistan. His pioneering reportages conveyed both the antlike collectivism of vast, barely mechanized construction sites and individual endeavour. In 1931, with Arkadi Shaikhet and Sergei Tules, he created the photo-essay A Day in the Life of a Moscow Worker. He worked as a photo-reporter for the TASS agency during the Second World War, and for other agencies after 1945.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Morozov, S., and Lloyd, V. (eds.), Soviet Photography 1917-1940: The New Photojournalism (1984)
