Center of Photography to them. Lumiere brothers: "The first astronauts: Informal Chronicle
A photo exhibition opens director and cameraman, documentary Boris Smirnov. It was filmed Smirnov Gagarin, Leonov, Titova, Tereshkova, and many other astronauts before the first flight
Center pictures to them. Lumière, April 15 - May 22, 2011
Center pictures to them. Lumiere brothers is a photo exhibition director and cameraman, documentary Boris Smirnov, "The first astronauts: Informal Chronicle dated to the 50 th anniversary of the first manned flight into space.
half a century these pictures were stored on shelves archive not published in any magazine, not knowing the walls of galleries and museums. "The first astronauts: an unofficial news" - is sixty portraits of real people, our contemporaries, to translate into reality the dream of mankind of the cosmos.
By April 1961, Boris Smirnov was the only staff photographer Cosmonaut Training Center. It was filmed Smirnov Gagarin, Leonov, Titova, Tereshkova, and many other astronauts before the first flight.
the CPC Boris went straight from school and immediately became a full member of the squad. Day after day he was shooting exercises in Star City, capturing everyday life of one of the most sensitive sites of the USSR. Knowledge and skills of 17-year old student at VGIK enough to vocational training to shoot and teach future astronauts to use the camera. This later Boris will be the main cameraman program - Soyuz Apollo, the Soviet side and headed the department kinoteletehniki VGIK.
Meanwhile photograph of astronauts was for him the work of "a load". This load of a young photographer with pleasure took, filmed over 10 000 frames of space annals.
For exhibition curators Center of Photography to them. Lumiere brothers seized photographs created between 1961 and 1964. On them - the first astronauts: Yuri Gagarin, Alexei Leonov, German Titov, Pavel Popovich, Valentina Tereshkova, Andrian Nikolayev, Valeri Bykowski, Gregory Nelyubov, Valentina Ponomareva.
Freedom to remove all seem important and interesting, there is in each photo Smirnov. Best pictures would then have been fifty years ago, just random sketches. Now they are priceless.
 Boris Smirnov fishing. With the rod Leonov, with a fish in his hands B. Volynov, with a movie camera E. Khrunov. River speaking Source: | captain the hockey team, "Our" Yuri Gagarin Source: |
's Gagarin got off the bus with a hockey stick in one hand and a cigarette - in another. "Well, Bor, remove me, perhaps, for history!" - A single frame. At the celebration in the club squad member Irina Solovieva, and a soldier competing who quickly peel the potatoes: a soldier or astronaut (seemingly everyday scene - and the picture for some reason turned into a spirit fellinievskoy "Dolce Vita"). Dobrovolsky, all the sensors, just got out of a soundproof isolation chamber, where he stayed for ten days - very happy, not at all similar to your own photos in uniform. Pavel Popovich during the inspection of large heads shaking "hands" empty space-suit: "Bor, take off my old friend!»
| The evening the CPC. Who is faster to peel the potatoes. In the foreground brush astronaut Solov'eva Source: | Last tightening. Cosmonaut G. Nelyubov before daily training in the simulator of the "Vostok". Moscow Source: |
These photos could be published in newspapers and magazines of the time - the wrong format. Too, they receive private, undress. And yet in these pictures you can find everything: the vanished romance of the pioneers of space, and a strong spirit of people, and "simple Soviet person." In the end - what a difference! They were the world's first astronauts. And no one can ever say about himself the same.
The exhibition is scheduled screenings of Boris Smirnov: "King Missile" (2008-2009) - History major Soviet missile which in 1961 placed into orbit spacecraft "Vostok" and continues to fly into space so far, the 1000 victory over death "(2006) - the story of Academician GI Severin, developer of rescue and life support crews of space ships, the chief designer of the famous Plant Zvezda ».
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