Today in the Yard building the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO "(St. Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya, 35) opens an exhibition of contemporary Petersburg pictorial photography.

Lyudmila TOBOLINA The Visit Source: rosphoto.org

Lyudmila TOBOLINA Self-portrait in an interior Source: rosphoto.org

concept of "Pictorial" (beautiful) photograph was introduced into international practice in the late XIX century. Some of the aesthetic concept of building an image and the term itself was borrowed from the program book of English photographer Henry Peach Robinson's "Artistic Effect in Photography", published in 1869. "Any fraud, trick and magic of any kind open to the photographer <...> can do a lot and create a beautiful painting, mixing in pictures of real and artificial," - wrote Robinson. Using a special positive print process (technical pictorialism), photographers sought particularly to an image. Soft focus lenses can reduce the detail.

ALLA Poletaeva web Source: rosphoto.org

ALLA Poletaeva solar wind Source: rosphoto.org

A favorite pictorialists monocle (simple object consisting of a concave-convex lens) made possible the establishment of generalized, vague images, while maintaining sharpness contours of the image (optical pictorialism). For adherents of this trend was the work of photography, based on the laws of painting, its traditions and experience, they raised the light painting technique to the level of high art. This is due to a fairly narrow range of subjects that have been accessed pictorialists. Consciously moving away from the documentary, which is characteristic for consumer photos, they capture landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes uncomplicated. Making it easier to track and turning to the usual subjects, the master of pictorialism approved paramount artistic device.

Lyudmila TOBOLINA Decanter Source: rosphoto.org

Lyudmila TOBOLINA A lady at the window Source: rosphoto.org

direction quickly gained a popularity that has allowed him to become the first international course in the field of artistic photography. It was dusk and the beginning of pictorial photography, first turned into a fashion phenomenon, and then became a field for all sorts of decorative experiments and, finally, has lost its original content, which is being revived today in the new technologies.

ARTEMIA SYSOEV Thaw Source: rosphoto.org

NATALIA Zarutsky Bridge Source: rosphoto.org

Participants of the exhibition that opens in the halls" ROSPHOTO, used in his work experience of masters of the past century, and continue their search. This shows various examples of contemporary pictorialism - a unique phenomenon that existed in the era of rapidly evolving technologies. Works, combined aesthetics "scenic" pictures indicate that the old methods of printing have not been exhausted today from both a technical and an artistic point of view. At the same time, these works are collected in the space of a single exposure, are individual and sometimes antagonistic interpretation of the pictorial method, due to the difference between an author's position in the understanding of photography as an art form.

Maria Havrylchyk

curator of the exhibition - Igor Lebedev

Actors: Lyudmila Tobolina, Zarutsky Natalia, Natalia Zakharova, Madina Astakhov, Alla Poletayev, Alexander Chernogrivov, Oleg Zhuravlev, Elena Mikhnovsky, Nadezhda Kuznetsova, Arthur Ionauskas, Vladimir Bryliakov, Alexander Dymnikov, Stanislav Hvalin, Igor Lebedev, Sergei Sveshnikov, Elena Skibitskaya, Artemi Sysoev, Andrew Polushkin, Sergei Shcherbakov, Victoria Sergienya, Asya Nemchenok, Vitaly Smirnov, Igor Nachinkin, Igor Bryakilev, Alexei Alexeyev.

exhibition will run from 2 February to 3 April 2011.

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