Max Penson 1893 - 1959
EXHIBITIONS
1936
Exposition in a Pravda newspaper office. Moscow. 1937
The first All-Soviet exhibition of photographic art. Moscow.
1938
Soviet Woman. Moscow.
The World Photography Fair. Paris.
1940
An exhibition commemorating the 15th anniversary of Soviet Uzbekistan, Tashkent.
1944
20 Years of Work. Personal exhibition.Tashkent. 1958
The First Republican exhibition of photographic art. Tashkent.
1958
Forty Years of Soviet Photo Art. Moscow. 1996
Museum of Contemporary Art. Nice.
One-man show in a Representative of Uzbekistan in United Nations Organisation. New-York.
1997
Max Penson (1893-1959). Retrospective. Carre Noir Gallerie. Paris.
1999
Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US. The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington.
2001
Soviet Photography in Central Asia – Max Penson, 1925-1945. Anahita Gallery. Santa Fe.Max Penson. Sovjetisk fotografi fran 1920-, 1930- och 1940-tal. Bildens Hus. Fotomuseet Sundsvall.
Sweden.
2002
Penson et le Quotidien ouzbek. Biblioteque Historique de la ville de Paris.
Sowjetische Fotografie der 192o er/193o er-Jahre. Von Piktoralismus und Modernismus zum Sozialistischen Realismus: Alexander Grinberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Max Penson... Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. Wien.
2003
Max Penson - Man and Machine, 1924-1944. Anahita Gallery. Santa Fe.
Max Penson, Photographs 1925-1945. Musei Capitolini - Palazzo Caffarelli. Roma.
2004
Ouzbekistan de Max Penson: 1926-1948. La Bibliotheque Cantonale e universitaire de l'Universite de Fribourg.
Soviet Photography of the 1920s and 1930s. Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Unknown Penson. Academy of Art of Uzbekistan. Taschkent.
Staging Happiness: The Formation of Socialist Realist Photography. Nailya Alexander Gallery. New York.
2005
Born in a Happiness. Museum Of A History of Photography. S-Petersburg. 2006
125 Years of Uzbek photography. European Parliament. Brussels.Modernism. Designing a new world. 1914-1939. Victoria & Albert museum. London.
2007
Max Penson. Artist`s archive. Galeyev-Gallery. MoscowClassic Soviet Modernist Photographer Max Penson and the Soviet Modernisation of Uzbekistan 1920-
1930s. Somerset House. Gilbert Collection. London
2008
Fighting for the Banner. The Soviet Art between Stalin and Trotsky. 1926-1936. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2009
Max Penson. Rakhmaninov` Gallery. S-Petersburg. 2010
The Magic Leica of Max Penson (1893 – 1959). Pushkin House. London
2011
Max Penson: Photography between Revolution and Tradition. Nailya Alexander Gallery. New York.
A Herd archival print 40.5 x 48.7 cm
A Mirab, 1940 archival print 36.9 x 48.6 cm
Artist, 1940 Archival print 39 x 49.4 cm
At Smelting Furnace 1950 archival print 39 x 51 cm
At Textile Factory, 1940’s archival print 40.5 x 50.6 cm
Bricklayers archival print 38.4 x 49.2 cm
Burlaki archival print 29.7 x 42 cm
Dancer 1948 archival print 35 x 50 cm
Desert Sands 1937 archival print 35.8 x 50.2 cm
Max Penson is Taking a Photo 1929 Archival print 33 x 50 cm
Motherhood archival print 29.7 x 42.1 cm
Mothers Learning archival print 40.4 x 50.7 cm
On a Cart, 1939 archival print 39 x 49.5 cm
Pillar archival print 26.7 x 38.5 cm
Portrait of a Young Girl archival print 31.4 x 39.1 cm
Repairs to Excavator, 1939 archival print 38.6 x 49.5 cm
School Girls, 1925 archival print 40.5 x 50.7 cm
Sportsman archival print 39.2 x 50.2 cm
Tamara Hanum, second half of 1930’s archival print 38.5 x 50 cm
Two Soldiers archival print 37.6 x 48.9 cm
Untitled archival print 18.6 x 50.3 cm
Untitled archival print 20 x 28.4 cm
Untitled Archival print 24.3 x 37 cm
Untitled archival print 40.5 x 50.7 cm
Untitled archival print 27.2 x 38.4 cm
Untitled archival print 27.8 x 35.1 cm
Untitled 1948 archival print 33.5 x 50.6 cm
Untitled archival print 33.5 x 50 cm
Untitled archival print 34.5 x 49.5 cm
Untitled archival print 35.6 x 49 cm
Untitled archival print 35 x 49.5 cm
Untitled 1946 archival print 36.8 x 50 cm
Untitled archival print 38 x 50.1 cm
Untitled 1938 archival print 39.6 x 49.5 cm
Untitled 1940 archival print 39.8 x 49.8 cm
A Hunger Steppe 1945 archival print 40.5 x 50.2 cm
Wood Carvers archival print 18.3 x 28 cm