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Semyon Fridlyand. Untitled. 1930s. Gelatin silver print, 13 3/8 × 11 5/8" (34 × 29.5 cm). Gift of Howard Schickler

Semyon Fridlyand was born into a working-class family on August 28, 1905, in Kiev, Ukraine. He moved to Moscow in 1925, where he lived until his death on February 14, 1964. In 1925 he began working at Ogonek (The flame), one of the many illustrated magazines owned by his cousin Mikhail Koltsov; in 1932 he was appointed the head of its photography department. Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, Fridlyand made his primary living working as a photojournalist not only for Ogonek and the newspaper Pravda, but also for the Soviet agency Soiuzfoto; yet it was not until 1930 that he received a formal education in the arts at the State Institute of Cinematography. He published his photographs often in Sovetskoe foto, Novyi lef, and USSR in Construction, three of the most important journals for photography in the Soviet Union, and his works were included in the exhibition Ten Years of Soviet Photography (1928), and in Film und Foto (1929), the most influential international exhibition of photography of that era.

Ksenia Nouril, for the Object:Photo website

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