EREMIN Yury Petrovich

1881, village of Kazan, the Don Cossack region - 1948

Photographer, artist

born in the family of Cossack. At the age of two years after the death of his parents, remained in the custody of his grandfather. Graduated from two-year college, a teenager started painting. After graduating from college he entered the short-term courses for teachers of drawing Novocherkassk teachers' seminary and soon gained a place in a small school on the farm Upper Chirskaya village Migulin.

autumn of 1900 came to Moscow and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the studio AP Vasnetsov. He graduated from college in 1905 with the rank of a freelance artist and in the same year he started work in the Crimea, where the painted houses, painted portraits, making decorations for the Yalta theater.

From 1907 to 1914 he traveled in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland and Greece. During the trip kept travel diaries and notebooks, began to take pictures ( "Villa Floridiana in Naples", "Evening in Baja", "Venice", "fishing", "Vienna. Schönbrunn", "In Provence", "Street in Villa Frank and others). In 1907, created in imitation of Monet painting, photography Bridge in Verona, for which he received the Honorary Diploma at the International Exhibition in Nice (1907). In 1908 - participated in a photo exhibition in Naples, where he presented a stylized graphic work "Calm" (1908). Gradually abandoned painting and took up photography reigned.

In 1910 he returned to Russia and joined the Russian Photographic Society in Moscow. Participated (with N. Petrov, NF Murzin, A. Trapani, SI Savrasov) in the group "Young Art" (from 1912).

In 1914 he opened a photo studio in Moscow Secession.

In 1915 he was drafted into the army photographer.

After the revolution has created vast cycles of "Old Moscow", "Moscow palaces and manor houses," Ural "," Volga "," Central Asia "," Crimea "," The peoples of the Caucasus ».

In 1918, he worked in the Moscow department of education.

In the 1920's represented the Soviet photography at international exhibitions. Received top honors at photosalon Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States. At the first major exhibition in the USSR - Soviet photography for 10 years "(1928) - submitted 135 works, including a series of advanced techniques for specific and architectural landscapes for which he was awarded the diploma of the first degree. From 1925 to 1928 participated in four exhibitions "The Art of Movement", organized by the State Academy of Artistic Sciences.

Taught photograph in circles House press Trekhgornij Manufactory, Dobrolet and the House of Pioneers, a group of trained photographers for Moura (Moscow Criminal Investigation Department), organized a photographic museum Moore. From 1928 to 1948 led them to set up a circle of artistic photography at the Moscow House of Scientists of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1931 taught at the Institute of Architecture.

Since the mid 1930's dabbled in photojournalism - a correspondent for the newspaper "Izvestia", magazines "USSR in Construction", "Twinkle", "Change". Used only that emerged handheld camera "Lake».

in 1936 held at the Cinema House debate on how the development of Soviet photography work of the photographer have been sharply criticized for "right-wing bias", ie, a return to the traditions of pictorial photography.

In 1937, rented channel Moscow - Volga, but then began work on a cycle of "Peoples of the USSR. Collaborated with VSHV (All-Union Agricultural Exhibition) and archives Tass.

Art had a great influence on the creativity of the photographer. Initially Eremin keen complex laboratory processes - oil, bromoylem, gum arabic, and others. In the mature period focused on conventional printing. Desire estetizirovat reality, imitate the technique of painting in photography led him to create a decorative, chamber style in photography. Engaged fotoillyustrirovaniem books on art.

Photos Eremina stored in the collections of the museum "Moscow House of Photography", the Union of Photographers of Russia, Alex Lachman Gallery (Cologne), Museum Ludwig (Cologne) and others, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.