Ivan Mikhailovich Shagin

1904, Ivanovo Oblast - 1982, Moscow

Photographer

was born in a large peasant family. When his father died, was given a boy for orders in the merchant's shop in Moscow. After 1917 he returned to the village. In 1921 came a sailor on a Volga steamer. In 1924-1928 worked as an auxiliary worker, seller, shop instructor schools in the cooperative trade in Moscow. I got carried away a photograph. Fotokruzhka attended classes at the newspaper "Our Life". In 1928 began to take off for various publications for concern "for Agriculture". I photographed on glass plates of the old wooden camera with fur. In 1928 the solemn ceremony was filmed Gorky, who came from the island of Capri in the USSR.

in 1930 became a staff of the newspaper "Our Life", and then the newspaper cooperative life. " In 1931, cooperated with the magazine "At the construction site general store. In 1932 the magazine became a photojournalist "collectivist", for whom he had formed a serial photo essays about four generations of the family 115-year-old collective farmer IA Lartseva (1932). Essay built from individual chapters: Lartsevy in feudal times and post-reform, and then - during the Soviet era, the years of the NEP and the period of collectivization, it was shown in the key moments of collective farms: the work of party cells, study farmers, improving the welfare and t . e. Possesses the branched storyline into a series of teaching aids, which in comparison clearly shows how life was under the tsars and the like under Soviet rule. Essay was reprinted in several photo albums, it responded to the magazine Proletarian photo ».

In 1933-1951 worked as a photojournalist of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

in 1934-1936 was published in the album "Drummer socialist fields", "Public Universities", "Red Army", released Izogizom, in magazines and newspapers association "subtropics". In 1934 participated in international exhibitions held in Prague, Warsaw, Zaragoza.

in 1935 as part of the brigade's leading photojournalists shooting the Kiev military maneuvers, the most extensive military exercises in 1930 ( "parachute"). Participated in "Exhibition of Masters of Soviet photography" (1935), which were selected by 13 of the best images created by a photographer for five years of professional work.

in 1935-1936 participated in international exhibition in the U.S. and Japan.

in 1936 as part of the brigade "Komsomolskaya Pravda" traveled to the Far East, where military maneuvers took off, went to sea on warships of the Pacific Fleet. Made there shot guns fire chief - a paraphrase of the famous eyzenshteynovskogo frame from the film "Battleship Potemkin».

In 1937 participated in the First All-Union Exhibition photography (Moscow, Museum of Fine Arts, Leningrad, Kiev). Was the exhibitor of the international exhibition in Antwerp. Took part in a photographic exhibition in the UK (1939, Princeton).

During the Great Patriotic War photographer for "Komsomolskaya Pravda". In December 1941 shooting attack near Moscow ( "In the liberated village"), regularly published images from the rear at military plants in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk ( "Instead of men who had gone to the front", "Y paternal machines", "All for the front, All for Victory! "). I photographed the battle for Berlin, meeting with allies on the Elbe, the signing of the act of unconditional surrender and the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, 1945.

After the war, during the World Youth Conference in London filming football games in Moscow "Dynamo" (1946). Since the late 1940's, studied color photography, has worked with leading publishers. Participated in the illustration of the updated edition of the Book of tasty and healthy food ».

In 1954 participated in the Third All-Union exhibition of color photography. Took part in the exhibition "Photography of the USSR" (1958).

in 1960-1964 participated in the annual exhibitions of "Seven-Year Plan in Action", in the exhibition "My Moscow" (1964), and was exhibited at the exhibitions devoted to the twentieth anniversary of Victory over Fascism (1965) and the twenty-fifth victory over Fascism (1970). Participated in the All-Union exhibition "My Country" (1973). In 1975 a collection of works received a gold medal at the All-Union photo exhibition "30 Years of Great Victory."

Monograph "Ivan Shagin" was published in the series "Masters of Soviet photography" in publishing "Planet" (1975).

Photos I. Shagin stored in the museum "Moscow House of Photography" (Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts), the Union of Photographers of Russia, in private collections.