Anniversary Photo Exhibition of Vladimir Lagrange «So we lived», together 200 photographs, created by the author for 50 years, opens today in the gallery named Lumière

Photo gallery name Lumière presents jubilee exhibition Vladimir Lagrange «So we live». 200 photographs, created by the author for 50 years, as if time machine will take us to our past.

Vladimir Lagrange - photographer thaw, short time of hope, which left a bright trace in the lives of people in art and literature. Lagrange came to the profession in a happy time when the theory of «critical moment» Henri Cartier Bresson is beginning to spread in the USSR and became one of the unwritten rules of shooting. His photography «pigeons», increased the size of the wall, is involved in the exhibition «Our youth», held in Gorky Park in 1962. Zvonko top creative life. Virtually the entire exposition unfolds against the backdrop of his mnogometrovoy work. Photography is the era of emotion, her mood: to replace the bronze statue of the young people have not known war, full of joy of life. Vladimir Lagrange - generation leader in his profession.

He's already working for Photo TASS ahead and he has 25 years of work in «gloss» at that time, the magazine «The Soviet Union», for the time in which the photographer has created several thousand images.

Vladimir Lagrange rented economic, social and political reportage, and received a portrait of Soviet man, the chronicles of a generation in which those who come later will recognize the human face of the past Soviet Union.

All Soviet journalism was based on the interference in reality, ie the reporter is actively engaged with those he photographed. In the early 1960's have the debate about the role of the author and the limits of its intrusion into reality. The traditional approach to photography was dropped sixties generation. Vladimir Lagrange, and dozens of other authors are included in journalism at the «ottepelnoy» wave. The new generation refuses to die. A new hierarchy of values. The young are pleasures of life, they are looking for new forms of expression, they speak the language of emotions. Vladimir Lagrange was one of the first spoke that language. He uses all the new tricks - look through the glass (photo «Belaz plateau Rasvumcherr»), the game scales, rhythmic song - bright features of photographs of the sixties. He shoots through steel spark a flame ( «Dynamics Labor»), stevedores through thick corn ( «Strada»), workers wade through the snow storm ( «Pinega. Purga»). We have a dynamic image generation - another bright feature of the new language of the sixties. In the development of this language Vladimir Lagrange is flush with the global development of photography. Another trend of the sixties - blurring of motion pictures ( «Chaut») The photo referred the motion as such. Brush blurred in motion, the mountains in the background - how muddy the silhouette of a person, too, went to blurring, but the emotional expression of the moment so much that the object depicted in the photograph, flies directly in the face the viewer: the space frame - in the voice space. Such images were difficult to censor. Long work in «the Soviet Union» self produced experience: he was well aware that will not go into print, and continued to shoot «nehodovye pictures» «on the table».

One can also see a typical Soviet images of these images, you can reconstruct all of the work of Soviet ideology. Vladimir Lagrangian can be found «Chornukhi» - something that could never appear on the pages of the Soviet press. World of Soviet man was broken into two parts. One part - the myth, the second - everyday life, then, what was life. Exhibition of Vladimir Lagrange «So we lived» united both parts. The eternal Russian themes for which the photographer Vladimir Lagrange found their ways of expression.

The exhibition will be held at the Central House of Artists, room number 2, from 23 December 2008 to January 18, 2009.

Source: lumiere.ru