Boris Ignatovich (1899-1976),
first worked as a journalist and a newspaper editor before taking up
photography in 1923. In the 1920s he worked for a number of publications, most
notably, Bednota (Poverty), Krasnaia Niva (Red Field) and Ogonek. Ignatovich
first gained attention through his photographs of village themes, particularly
those taken in the Ramenskoe settlement near Moscow. He became a pupil of
Alexander Rodchenko and was greatly influenced by his style. Both became
members of the distinguished October group and in 1931, when Rodchenko was
expelled, Ignatovich took over as head of the group until it was dissolved in
1932 by governmental decree. Ignatovich went on to pioneer the theory of
collectivism in photojournalism at the Soiuzfoto agency where he developed
specific rules of photography; photographers working under him signed their
photographs “Ignatovich Brigade”. Ignatovich is also noted as the first Soviet
photo-reporter to take aerial photographs. In the 1930s, he made several
documentary films.
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