Lumière Gallery of the series «The Anthology of Russian photos of XX century» and presents the solo exhibition of Igor Gnevasheva

Photo gallery name Lumière continues to acquaint fans with photos of the authors - the project participants «Pictures 60-70» and presents the solo exhibition of Igor Gnevasheva of a series «The Anthology of Russian photos of XX century».

Igor Gnevashev belongs to a generation of people known as the sixties. He was born in 1936, graduated from school in 1954-m and entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. But like many creative people who changed their profession, and with the head left in the photo. His first amateur work ( «Ice Cream» and «the dove of peace») saw the light in the magazine «The Soviet Union» back in 1958.

In 1962, Igor Gnevashev graduate lecturer in фоторепортажу Central House of Journalists. He worked as a correspondent in the magazine «RT» (1965), «The Soviet screen» (1966), «The Soviet Film» (1973). In 1981, the photographer left the editorial work and became a freelance artist.

career Igor Gnevasheva can be described as largely an ideal, as it gives him the opportunity for contact with humans and their surrounding world. His photographs - photographic clean, without staging - remember its simplicity, openness, humanity. The mastery of simplicity - the most difficult thing in art, are rare. Between the author, his characters and the audience a sense of trust - the most valuable thing in art photography.

In the works of Igor Gnevasheva clear three lines: genre picture, reports of survey sites and фотопортрет.

The photographer worked with almost all the directors that make up the golden fund of Russian cinema - Peter Todorovsky, Leonid Gaydayev, Eldar Ryazanov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Andrei Tarkovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, and other masters.

His photographic shooting films are distinguished by psychologism, and the ability to capture the atmosphere of the events in the film. Pictures made on the set, becoming an independent artistic value and exist in two dimensions - movie and reality - not separable clear boundary. Here you can talk about the removal of concepts, such as Kalyagin - Chichikov, without leaving the site with the film suddenly turns into the statistics, but the main character becomes scrubwoman actions ( «Latest bar», 1983) - and it is not clear at what point kinoshnaya reality has given way to real life and when the reverse transition will happen (and happen whether ?).

A sense of artistic freedom has always helped Igor Gnevashevu not to set the themes and slogans in the job log photographer. He is always ready to defend their opinion, no one can make it work contrary to what he considers right. He has a simple but genuine approach to photography - no lie.

Igor Gnevashev - a member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, winner of «Golden Eye Russia». His solo exhibitions were held in Moscow, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod. He holds diplomas and exhibitions Interpressfoto «Our youth», the bronze medal of All-Union Exhibition of 1976, the prize of «30 years of the Great Victory», member of «Photo 60-70», etc. The author fotoknig and albums. His name is recorded in the world encyclopedia of «modern photography» (Makmilan Limited). According to the British association «Fotoekspeditsiya», Igor Gnevashev is among the eight best photographers of the world.

exhibition in the Galleries of Lumière, you can visit from March 4 to April 12, at: Krymsky Val, 10, CHA, hall 51. Hours: Tuesday - Sunday from 11 to 19 hours.

Source: press release Galleries behalf Lumière