exhibition of Soviet art-photography 1970-80-ies opened this weekend at the Museum Jane Voorhees Zimmerly (Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Jersey, USA). The exhibition presents more than 60 photographs from the collection of known collectors Norton and Nancy Dodge (Norton and Nancy Dodge) - this work Francisco Infante , Vladimir Kupriyanov , Boris Mikhailov and Alexander Slyusareva.

At that time the Soviet Union in the picture is not officially considered to be art and not taught in art schools. However, the amateur status of art photography, not limited by professional conventions or censorship, gave more creative freedom and opportunities for experimentation.

Creation of four above-mentioned authors demonstrate four different approaches to photography. Alexander Slyusarev creates elegant formalist photographs in which shadows, light and reflection turning reality into abstract forms. Boris Mikhailov, who is considered one of the founders of Russia's conceptual photography, makes documentary photography into an art, and fills it with political and social criticism. Vladimir Kupriyanov also uses the documentary photograph and convert it using the methods of Conceptualism and art. And Francisco Infante creates a so-called. "Artefacts", which he puts in an organic environment.

Slyusarev and Amber - photographers straight, and Infante and Kupriyanov use photography as a means of transferring their creative ideas. Kupriyanov and Mikhailov busy social themes, and Infante and Slyusarev learn abstract categories, such as the geometry of light and reflections, often referring to the Russian avant-garde and/or Western European modernism. Exhibition in Zimmerly gives viewers an opportunity to compare and find similarities and differences in approaches to social issues, cultural and artistic associations, photography techniques and artistic effects.

The exhibition will run until March 28, 2010.

article prepared by Catherine Onuchina, AI

Sources: artdaily.com , zimmerlimuseum.rutgers. edu , artinvestment.ru