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Anna Riwkin-Brick was born on 23 June, 1908 in Surazh, is a Russian-born Swedish photographer. Discover Anna Riwkin-Brick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 115 years old?

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Born 23 June 1908
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1908

Anna Riwkin-Brick or just Anna Riwkin (Surazh, Chernigov Governorate, Russia 23 June 1908 – Tel Aviv 19 December 1970) was a Russian-born Swedish photographer.

1914

Anna Riwkin was born in Gomel into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire and came to Sweden with her parents in 1914.

She studied ballet for three years as a child at the Stockholm Whitlockska samskolan School, and danced professionally for some time before an injured foot put an early stop to her career.

1920

Her book Medmänniskor ('Fellow Beings'), in which she rephotographed her friends of the 1920s; dancers, artists, gypsies and the Sámi child Elle Kari (of her first children's book), was published in 1962.

1927

She was employed as an assistant to the court photographer Moisé Benkow in 1927, and started her own portrait and dance photography studio in Stockholm in 1928.

1929

She married the editor of the Swedish-Jewish Zionist periodical Judisk Krönika, translator of Russian, Yiddish and Czech, Daniel Brick in 1929, and marketed her work by displaying portraits of young writers and intellectuals from among her husband's acquaintances.

1930

From the 1930s, Riwkin added journalistic work to her repertoire, collaborating on several books with the journalist Elly Jannes and the writer Ivar Lo-Johansson.

1932

As a former dancer, she remained interested in dance as a subject of photography and illustrated a book on Swedish dance, Svensk Danskonst, published in 1932 and in the following year her photographs were exhibited in the international exhibition Dance and Movement in Paris.

1936

Her first one-person show was held in 1936 in Kungsgatan in 1936.

After the Second World War, she worked for the Swedish photojournalistic magazine Se, for which she went on numerous trips both within Sweden and to foreign countries, photographing mainly women subjects in Greece, Yugoslavia, USA, Japan, Korea, Israel and India.

1948

In 1948 she published a book on Palestine.

1950

In 1950, with the aim of promoting tolerance by introducing children from different countries to each other's lives, and international understanding through children's literature that would also be read by adults, Riwkin-Brick was commissioned by the UNESCO to make a photo book about the Sámi people.

She persuaded Elly Jannes, a journalist for the journal Vi, to write the text for Vandrande by ('Wandering Village', also released as 'Nomads of the North'), published in 1950.

1951

Anna Riwkin-Brick took many photos of a Sámi family's little girl Elle Kari that were not included in the Vandrande by edition, and Elly Jannes suggested they make another photo book about Elle Kari and to aim it at a child audience which was published in 1951.

It was the first Swedish picturebook with photos of everyday life of a child in a continuous story, and the first of many such books that the photographer was to make.

It was a success.

Translated into eighteen languages in editions with high print runs; 25,000 copies were printed for the first edition released in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Riwkin-Brick issued a series of 19 children's books (Children's Everywhere), each focusing on the everyday life of a child in a particular place or country.

1955

From her photojournalistic and travel photography came the work selected by Edward Steichen for his 1955 globally-touring The Family of Man exhibition.

One, of a family in the snow in Lapland, is typical of work she was later to publish in children's books, while the other, used to illustrate the idea of protest in the exhibition, is cropped image of a woman animatedly relating a story to neighbours from the couple's book Israel.

Riwkin-Brick contributed significantly to the growing use of photographs in children's picture-books, a genre that developed in the second half of the century.

1960

She later illustrated a book on ballet in 1960, Balettskolan with texts by the choreographer Birgit Cullberg and the dance teacher Lilian Karina Vasarhelyi.

In 1960 Riwkin established the photo agency Full Hand with Gösta Glass, Gustav Hansson, Bo Dahlin and Rolf Blomberg.

1963

Anna Riwkin-Brick received the Elsa Beskow Medal in 1963, the first time it was awarded to a photographer instead of an illustrator.

1964

For nine of these books, Astrid Lindgren wrote the text and authors for others include Hebrew author Lea Goldberg who contributed the text for Eli bar i Israel (Eli Lives in Israel, 1964); Cordelia Edvardson, an immigrant from Germany to Sweden and author of the autobiographical novel Briinnt barn (Burnt Child, 1985), wrote the text for Mirjam bar i Kibbutz (Mirjam Lives in a Kibbutz, 1969); Riwkin-Brick's sister Eugenie Soderberg penned the text of Makihana (1961); and Vera Forsberg contributed the texts for Gennet bar i Etiopien (Gennet Lives in Ethiopia, 1967) and Salima bar i Kashmir (Salimar Lives in Kashmir, 1970).

Sales of Riwkin's children's books totalled 900,000 copies.

1970

Riwkin died in 1970 of cancer in Israel.

On the instruction of her will, her photographs were donated to Moderna museet's Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm.

Posthumous exhibitions of photographs by Anna Riwkin-Brick were held at the Moderna museet, Stockholm:

2014

In 2014 the Israeli director Dvorit Shargal searched for the children in the books and made a film (Where is Elle Kari and what happened to Noriko-san?) about what had been happening to the children after these books were published.

Noiriko and Eva from the books were able to meet up again in Tokyo.