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Alexander Gronsky

Alexander Gronsky has been called the first Russian representative of deadpan — the deliberately “boring”, detached, dispassionate photography associated with the Dusseldorf School. Gronsky’s main genre is landscape; the typical environments of his photographs are the Moscow outskirts, wooded parks and residential areas built up with identical high-rise buildings. In one of his early projects, “Pastoral”, views of Moscow recalled classical landscape painting and, by association, seemed to become more attractive. The photographer showed that we see “beauty” where cultural habit tells us to.