Today in the Zurab Tsereteli Gallery opens an exhibition of nearly 150 color photographs of Moscow, made in 1930 by Vladislav Mikosha-70s

Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, March 22 - May 13, 2012
st. Prechistenka 19

Today Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery as part of the 9th International Month of Photography in Moscow "Biennale 2012" an exhibition of nearly 150 color photographs of Moscow, made Vladislav Mikosha in the 1930s and 70s.

VLADISLAV Mikosha Moscow. 1960 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

VLADISLAV Mikosha Moscow. The beginning of 1970 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

For four years, Museum "Moscow House of Photography" deals with the legendary photographer and photo archive fotooperatora Mikosha Vladislav (1909 -2004), author of the famous shots of destruction of the Temple of Christ the Savior and salvation Chelyuskinites, the defense of Sevastopol and the liberation of Warsaw, a meeting between Stalin and Mao and Khrushchev and Kennedy. More than six decades, Vladislav Mikosha holding a movie camera and the camera, leaving behind a huge number of pictures - evidence challenging era: reports from the front, shooting for magazines "Spark" and "Around the World", portraits of politicians and cultural figures. The color in this work was the last step, and perhaps the most difficult.

VLADISLAV Mikosha Nazim Hikmet in Artek. 1952 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

VLADISLAV Mikosha Portrait of Yuri Rypalova. 1938-1939 Tri bromoil Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

a twenty color film of the Victory Parade in Red Square, the large color photographic series about post-war Moscow and Leningrad, the Crimea and the Caucasus, China (1949-1950), Indonesia (1955), Burma (1956), Tbilisi (1951), released back in 1940, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition a series of colored marks - color photographs in the Soviet Mikosha started one of the first. In the postwar years, the color in his work is much pressed black and white image.

Vladislav Mikosha Leningrad House of Trade. 1950 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

VLADISLAV Mikosha Leningrad House of Trade. 1950 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Karbro color process, invented in 1869, suggested three-color photography and printing of complex separations and was quite time-consuming. That is why many photo-Soviet in 1938, when the photographs for color printing, took up the color, but quickly cooled off to him. One of the reasons was the fact that the process Karbro "to some extent destroys the half-tones and transitions" - wrote critic V. Grishanin in his article in the "Soviet pictures».

Mikosha not stopped any technical difficulties, or artistic flaws Karbro process. He shot a lot of the color and enthusiasm. Only the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, he made more than one hundred works. Of the 120 photos submitted on his solo exhibition in 1940, 20 were colored. For the time is too much. The journal "Spark" Yuri Prigogine wrote: "Color Photo - A new area. [...] But even among the few still color photography enthusiasts V. Mikosha stands out their subtle perception of color "(" Spark »№ 20, 1940).

VLADISLAV Mikosha on virgin soil. 1954 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

VLADISLAV Mikosha Moscow. 1960 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

were difficulties in working with color in Mikosha and after the war - and the movies, and photos. In the studio, he literally "did not get out" of the TCI (Technical Control Division), defending the press copies of "outsiders", as it seemed OTC controllers, shades, pulling out of the "marriage" her soft, airy and "sharp enough in the background" footage a long-shot optics.

Source : Press Release Mamma