Today at the Center of Photography Lumiere brothers opened another exhibition series on the St. Petersburg School of Art photo

Photographic Centre Lumiere Brothers, 1-26 February 2012
Moscow, Marsh Quay, 3, page 1

Today at the Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers presents "Silver City. Petersburg Photo of XX - XXI centuries. "- The second in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the St. Petersburg School of Art photography (opened last winter cycle of personal exposure Alexander Kitaev" Incomprehensible Petersburg »).

exhibition "Silver the city. Petersburg Photo of XX - XXI centuries. "Based on the works of photographers, one way or another related to" St. Petersburg school. " This definition, art criticism recently went down in everyday life, but quickly it caught on, is not primarily to geography and the type of consciousness, which involves a special attitude to the environment and brings together artists of different generations, but the focus is still photographers city is not important, they shoot landscape, portrait or still life.

ANDREW Polushkin Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers

St. Petersburg from a European viewpoint is quite young, he was only three hundred-odd years, so the St. Petersburg proklassicheskaya orientation to some extent paradoxical, and that it gives all that is born in this city unique. Petersburg picture shows originality of St. Petersburg is very distinctly. It is no wonder that a year ago, the exhibition was held in Bordeaux (France) and was called "St. Petersburg history." Each picture in it - it's a story, a memory ¸ emotion, anticipation of this city, which leaves its special mark on the artist, the creative in St. Petersburg.

to all authors participating in the project, are also characterized by adherence to the old, traditional types of printing, which stores touches of the artist. The exhibition displays the diversity of techniques of shooting and printing from Shooting myagkorisuyuschimi lenses and eyeglass, scratching negatives, direct bromine-silver printing and solarization to print coloring oils.

Igor Lebedev Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers

The exhibition features over 120 works of the leading photographers of the St. Petersburg museum level, as well as young writers. The exhibition begins in the fifties, with the work of Bronislaw Yasinsky, a photographer, whose name is virtually unknown even connoisseurs of photography. He was one of the first domestic photographers who worked in conditions of severe censorship, but managed to go beyond a pure amateur and reflect on photography as art.

Then the exhibition will feature photos Boris Smelov , one of the most important photographers, not only in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, and Russia in general, and his circle - Leonid Bogdanov, Olga Korsunova, Alexander Kitaev, Stas Chabutkin, Sergei Zhirkevicha and others. It is in the pictures of Boris Smelov Petersburg identity, implying a particular style and technique of printing, it was so strong that it became possible to speak of the "Petersburg school" photos as a separate and independent phenomena. (. - AI .)

Stas Chabutkin buses. 1979 Source: Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere Brothers

The exhibition presents works of Ludmila Tabolina, Natalia and Vladimir Tsekhomsky Antoshchenko, Alexander Chernogrivova, Alexander Nikiporets, Eugene Mokhorev and many others.

The curators of the project - Olga Korsunova (" FotoDepartament ") and Arkady Ippolitov (State Hermitage).

Source : Press Release Center of Photography Lumiere brothers