This evening at the gallery «FotoSoyuz» Exhibition Alexander Ustinov (1909-1995) devoted to the 100 th anniversary of the author.

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Ustinov, photographs of the famous artist, gave the favorite business over 60 years of life. He was born on 16 June 1909 in Moscow. After Seven worked at journeyman locksmith, packers, lighter on kinofabrike, then enrolled in the Film Institute, studied for four years, but was unable to finish it - it was necessary to earn a living. But by that time he has passion for photography, which I bought in installments «Fotokor», walked with him to Moscow and shot.

In 1933, Sasha Ustinov makes his first famous photograph «Cadets at subbotnik», then Ustinov images start to appear in newspapers «Red Warrior», «Red Star», in the journal «Ogonek». In 1938, he made the first in his life, this report on preparations for further fly the aircraft crew «Rodina» with daring aviator Valentina Grizodubovoy, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova. Thus begins reporting career Sasha Ustinov. He becomes a photographer of the newspaper «Red Star», takes on the Finnish War.

Even before the war began in June 1941, Ustinov is going on a business trip «Truth» to the south, in the Donbas and Rostov regions. From there he returned June 19, even managed to deliver the photos to the newspaper, and four days have had to make the first military report. It was June 23, 1941, at 8 am.

During the war years, a rare number «Truth» left without pictures and stories A. Ustinov. His front, biography, began reporting from Moscow Oktyabrski rayvoenkomata June 23, 1941, continued to travel on all fronts, which were the main battles of war and images of the meeting ended with the Allies on the Elbe in April 1945, and Victory Day on Red Square in Moscow.

Uydya to retire, Alexander Ustinov appeared in the daily edition «Pravda», as in all fifty years of devoted work in the newspaper. Low growth, stocky, all the same mobile, with the hryvnia posedevshih thick hair, he walked along the corridor of the third-floor office in the illustration, slowly, thoroughly. He was a man at all solid, and maybe so for a journalist to take on him is known nickname - Earl, which was also a tribute to, and irony caused by the fair to the envy of colleagues fortunate fate photographer Ustinov. And maybe a nickname, and came from the profession - pictures ...

çÒÁÆÓËÏÅ manifested itself in everything. I do not remember that he came to the editor without a necktie. Coming from the shooting in the Kremlin - and he has many years was a government photographer, go to the highest circles of power - in the laboratory of Alexander V. jacket hung on the shoulders, put kleenchaty apron to the floor, unstrap cufflinks and tuck sleeve white shirt, relaxes the gate (but a tie was on the spot!) and started to work - showed the film, print and Sushil photos, then walked to the fourth floor to show pictures of duty editor. In the «truth», it was not given to a film lab, and most go to drink coffee on the fifth floor. Photographer «Truth» was to be able to do everything myself: exercise, type in all conditions. Being able to transmit images «Bild» - telautograph, who often had to pull with them on trains and planes in the heavy suitcase, because the editors always savings fototelegrafiste, especially in foreign missions. Here Today front school when Ustinov drove with him to veschmeshke proyavochnyh two tank and two bottles of solution. Look at the picture in 1943, where a «emki» and village chickens Ustinov makes regular photographic front. How many of them were, and not just military.

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Ustinov has lived a good life - always in motion, always in search of themes, places and points of shooting. As a photographer «Truth» he tour the country and even polmira much seen and preserved for us. He is a photographer, has issued about a dozen photo albums and a book of memoirs about his turbulent life. He photographed the pilots and astronauts, S. Marshals Budennogo S. Timoshenko, the old Union M. Kalinina, many military leaders during the war, and only afterwards did the Government of photos in the Kremlin, depicted writers Leonid Leonov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexander Tvardovskiy, many scientists, artists, workers and peasants. All managed to say a kind word Aleksandr Vasilyevich in their photographs and books. About me, he said so: «... The fate assigned me to a happy generation of people who have been born prior to grand historical events in our country. I am happy that the profession of photographer gave me the opportunity for nearly half have witnessed the glorious history of my homeland ... time - that's what most enhances the value of any documentary photographs, be it a newspaper or in a family album. Its main value - evidence of human life ... »

Yuri Sadovnikov

exhibition in gallery «FotoSoyuz» (Pokrovka, 5) is from 30 April to 23 May. Hours: Monday - Friday: 16.00 to 20.00, Saturday: from 13.00 to 17.00, weekends: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

Source: mkrf.ru