Boris Ignatovich
![Avant-gardist of the Constructivism Epoch [1920-1930] / "The epoch of Ignatovich saw photographs acquire a language of their own, an artistic expressiveness of their own. The revolution in Russia swept away the bourgeois order and the bourgeois aesthetic. The builders of a new society needed their own language and idols. On this great, fast-moving wave of art rose Mayakovsky, Rodchenko, Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Deineka, El Lissitsky, and others. More accurately, they made this art. Boris Ignatovich made photography" Valerii Stigneev](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/216x146/f2/4f/a3/f24fa3f77ea6435e159b9fa30a4d6601.jpg)
![Photofront. Only the Truth [1941-1945] / "His wartime photographs are photographs of men,
remaining men – notwithstanding all the hardship, deprivation, cruelty, and death around them. They are not heroes.
They are men, simply men. When you look at Ignatovich's photographs, it seems that all his life he took pictures of good people. Or maybe that's just because there weren't any bad people around him?" Valerii Stigneev](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/216x146/6a/2e/4e/6a2e4e39c7690ff6548532302e7948f1.jpg)
![The Big Caucasus [1930s]: Georgia, Azerbaidjan, Armenia, Stavropol' and Krasnodar regions / The region stretches for about 1,200 kilometres or 750 mi from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian. The Western Caucasus, from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus. The Central Caucasus, from Mount Elbrus to Mount Kazbek. The Eastern Caucasus, from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian Sea.](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/216x146/4f/f9/48/4ff948873961e765df19429b82bfb6f5.jpg)
![Old Leningrad [1930-1950] / "In 1931 the magazine USSR in Construction decided to publish a special issue given over to Leningrad. I was charged to take pictures of the city from an airplane R-5. It was a tough job. There were low clouds in the sky. Moreover, a storm blew up. A bit later, the sky cleared but the wind kept on. I dared to work in the stormy weather and asked the pilot to fly as low as possible" Boris Ignatovich. Unfinished book, 1973](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/216x146/88/5e/da/885eda1fad666fc8a35c78708dbae033.jpg)
Dark Row, 1938. The covered portion of the Verkhnyi bazaar, extending from the Minaret of Dzhuma to the Shamakhi gate and Caravan Saray. Azerbaidjan, Baku
Morning meeting, 1938. Shepherds. Savan district, Armenia
Water for Yerevan, 1938. Armenia's oldest power station, the Kanaker hydroelectric station. Armenia, northern edge of Yerevan
Waiting for a medical procedure, 1938. Andreev Railway Workers Health Retreat. The retreat worked year-round. Kislovodsk, Stavropol' region
Men's day out, 1938. Khosty beach, located on Quiet cove at the Vidnoe cape, on the Black Sea coast. Sochi, Krasnodar region
Loofah sponge seller, 1938. Black Sea coast. Sukhumi. Abkhazia-Georgia, ex-USSR.
Collective farm fair in Tiflis, 1932. Here was the collective farm marketplace for fresh foods. Georgia, Tbilisi
Tractor driver Gudu Shauri and brigadier Kote, 1937. Rural location. Georgia.
Ancient Mr. Gvianishvili speaking with children, 1937. He was 125 years old, a confederate of Arsen of Tbilisi in the early 19th century. Georgia
Youth with grapes, 1938. Kardanakhi village. In 2013 UNESCO designated the Kakhetian “qvevri” method of making wine an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Kakhetia, Georgia