In 2000, around the world drove exhibition "Propaganda and Dreams. Photo 1930 in the USSR and the USA." Cyril, you must have seen it in Samara was also.
http://www.photographer.ru/cult/history/44.htm
Near the American masters were Rodchenko, Ignatowicz, Max Alpert, Markov-Grinberg, Victor Bull, and other masters.
The contrast was fantastic: forgive me, lovers of the American photo, but we were three orders of magnitude higher.
But, of course, auction items - they're different, and it is doubtful whether those who exhibited at the time (refer to the Americans) have a high price at auction (perhaps only Dorothy Lang, but the search time is not). In that show there was another problem.
Generation of great Russian photographers took. That they were able to be reporters and artists at the same time, elevate reportage shots to timeless images. Their works are undervalued, but that has its own reasons, including the objective. Sorry for bombast, but when their work will be conclusively regarded as the greatest reservoir of photography (than it actually is), only then can we talk about equity prices. At the same time this layer was the brainchild of his time, that in this case is good and bad simultaneously.
Now we have, sadly, is no genius, remarkable talents - too. No, and of those, alas, who really engaged in photography. Modern
domestic art cosmically far from the art of photography. Hence - low prices. And on fotoauktsionah than anywhere else, market things very rarely go for high prices. Is expensive now!