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Georgi Anatolevich Zelma (1906-1984) was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan into a Russian Jewish family.3 After growing up and training in Moscow, he began working as a technician for Rusfoto agency in the 1920s. By the 1930s, he was well-known for his photography in Central Asia, and became a key figure in the Constructivist movement, defining the proper role of the artist in the post-revolutionary era. He sided with avant-garde photographers such as Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, members of the October group, which advocated a new aesthetic language utilizing abstract composition, raking angles, and montage. ... |