Today in the Department of personal collections of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin opens an exhibition of photographs of a journalist and patron of artists and cultural Leonard Dzhanaddy "Moscow. 1957 "

Today, 26 January, the Department of personal collections of the Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin will be the opening exhibition of photographs of journalist and philanthropist, artist and cultural figure Léonard Dzhanaddy "Moscow. 1957. The exhibition includes unique collection of pictures of the VI World Youth Festival, to which 22-year-old student Leonard Dzhanadda arrived in the official Swiss delegation as a newspaper reporter Illustré.

festival opened in the capital of the USSR June 28, 1957. The guests were his 34 thousand people from 131 countries. Symbol grand Youth Forum - Dove of Peace was designed by the famous artist Pablo Picasso.

held under the slogan "For peace and friendship", the festival has become a significant event for the youth of those years. It consisted of a huge number of scheduled events: concerts, trade shows, sporting events, and late in the evening and night began informal communication. People gathered mainly in the center - at Gorky Street, Pushkin Square, Avenue of Marx and the Garden Ring. Young people socialized, sang, listened to jazz, dance and debate.

exhibition "Moscow. 1957 "Look for the snapshot tells the viewer as the official, masterly choreographed moments of the festival program and on the reverse side of the" Soviet idyll. Personnel festive extravaganza side by side with no less valuable for the history of everyday street scenes and images of ordinary Muscovites of the time: here, and soldiers patrolling the streets, and pandemonium in the underground, and distrustful stern faces of survivors of war and years of repression and then witnessing rocked the country and the world of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU. An astute, versatile Dzhanaddy approach to fixing surrounding their episodes reveals in it the artist's lyrical, laconic reporter, the thinker.

For political reasons, photographs of the Festival were never Dzhanaddy published at home and until recently existed only in the form of negatives.

Leonard Dzhanadda was born August 23, 1935 in the town of Martigny in Switzerland. In 1960, after finishing his studies at the Federal Polytechnic Institute of Lausanne, Dzhanadda dedicates itself to businesses in construction and real estate. Simultaneously, he worked as a reporter, by reporting on his many travels in the United States, Canada, Cuba.

July 31, 1976 Dzhanaddy younger brother, Pierre, trying to save their comrades, tragically killed in a plane crash. To perpetuate the memory of his brother, Leonard Establishes the fund in his name. Today the Foundation Pierre Dzhanaddy maintains the largest exhibition complex in the Swiss town of Martigny, which included an archaeological museum, museum of vintage cars, a lovely park, decorated with sculptures by Rodin and Henry Moore, Cesar. Foundation Pierre Dzhanaddy and GMII im. Pushkin has long term partnership.

exhibition is open to the public from 27 January to 14 March 2010

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