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Feb 9, 2023 · Explore the newly digitized collection of photo negatives taken by Alexander Buchman, which illustrates daily life in 1930s Shanghai and chronicles Leon Trotsky’s life in exile in Coyoacán, Mexico, months before his assassination.
Alexander H. Buchman was an American engineer, Communist sympathizer, and amateur photographer. In 1939-1940, he spent five months at Trotsky's villa in Coyoacán, Mexico, serving as one of Trotsky's guards and also exhaustively documenting the lives of Trotsky and his family and friends.
ALEX BUCHMAN, THE last survivor of Trotsky’s American guards at Coyoacn, died on January 7, 2003. Although he was 91, he died before his time. Alex was not in ill health, but slipped and fell during a rainstorm and fractured his hip. He made it through the surgery, but his heart gave out a week later. Alex was one of my dearest friends.
Apr 21, 2010 · Alexander Buchman’s camera recorded scenes from several of Trotsky’s cactus-collecting expeditions in the winter of 1939–40. Trotsky, who believed in strenuous physical exercise, loved hunting and fishing, although life as an endangered exile restricted his opportunities.
Alexander Buchman entered the film business in 1992 when he founded Avrora Media GmbH, and produced among other films: OVER DARK WATERS, THREE SISTERS, TWO CAPTAINS, GIRLFRIENDS AND OTHER MONSTERS and the acclaimed thriller MUTE WITNESS directed by Anthony Waller.
The Alexander H. Buchman papers document Buchman's activities as an amateur photographer living in Shanghai, China and Coyoacan, Mexico, and his relationship with Leon Trotsky.
Description. Correspondence, writings, police reports, printed matter, motion picture film, still photographs, and slides, relating to Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism, especially in China and the United States, to the Trotskyist C. Frank Glass, and to Rayna Prohme, revolutionary American journalist in China.
