Today, April 2, at 18.00 in VOLGA art gallery (WRI per., 10) Opening Day start of the exhibition of Japanese photographer Haga Hideo "Japanese holidays. The exhibition will be presented with a photographic exhibition of the first Soviet masters in 1971.

Hideo Haga (Haga Hideo) was born in 1921 in the Manchurian city of Dalian. He was the chief photographer of festivals and folk culture of Japan, a founding member of the Company's professional photographers in Japan (JPS) in 1950. The main themes of his photographs - festivals and holidays in Japan and around the world.

residents of the rising sun tend to share the holidays on the seasons, highlighting the New Year holiday. In winter, enjoy the newly fallen snow, taken in the spring - flowering plums, azaleas, cherry trees and autumn - scarlet maple leaves, and a full moon.

Haga Hideo detailed description of this classification in his book, but the Nihon Matsuri "(" Japanese holidays). If we consider the season as a correlation with the natural life cycle, you may find it as one of the leading aesthetic principles in other areas of culture (for example, the traditional seasonal divisions of the Japanese medieval poetry collections).

Japanese holidays are grouped not only by the seasons, but the origin and content . You can select, group celebrations of freedom from natural disasters and disease, with agricultural activities, with the admiration of nature, the cult of ancestors and family.

The exhibition in VOLGA art gallery will be presented 40 photos Haga Hideo Collection Gallery.

exhibition will run until April 30.

Source: Press Release VOLGA art gallery