Exhibition of photographs Arcadia Shaikhet now opened to the public at the Moscow House of Photography (Multimedia Art Museum)

Multimedia Art Museum, April 17 - May 27, 2012
st. Ostozhenka 16

Today in the Multimedia Art Museum as part of the 9th International Month of Photography in Moscow "Biennale 2012" was opened to the public exhibition of photos by Arcadia Shaikhet « Continued. 1928-1931 ».

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  car mileage in Central Asia. 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

1928-1931 years - a rich and dramatic period in the biography of the Soviet photographer Shaikhet Arcadia (1998-1959). It is during the "Great Break": forced industrialization and collectivization, clotting of the NEP, the centralization of the economy and the implementation of the first five-year plan of economic development, the time of Stalin's repressions and fabricated process.

Shaikhet, who was arrested on a false tip-off , came out of Butyrskaya in December 1927. And in January of 1928 he again published in the "little fire" by Mikhail Koltsov, and preparing images for different genres fifty anniversary of the Moscow exhibition "Soviet Photography for 10 years", organized by the National Academy of Artistic Sciences and the Russian photographic society. The jury of the exhibition, looking at 6000 107 works of photographers participating celebrated pictures Shaikhet a diploma degree.

Arkady Shaikhet New homes in Usachevka. The stairs from the bottom. Moscow, 1928 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Arkady Shaikhet in Volleyball courtyard of the mosque. Uzbekistan, 1930 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

At the turn of the 1920s and 30s Shaikhet removes "Fininspektora a flapper" and "NEP man with fininspektora" "dispossessed of his home" in Ukraine. Removes the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, the Leningrad plant "Red Putilovets", Moscow Automobile Plant (AMO), Balakhna Paper Mill ("Komsomolets at the helm"), Nizhny Novgorod automobile plant named after Molotov ... Removes bond Turksib in Kazakhstan, the construction of the Karakum Canal in Turkmenistan, Grozny oil pipeline - Tuapse, bookmark the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, the discovery of Gorky Park. Bitter and route the "Red Arrow" at the Leningrad station. Removes Maxim Gorky, Vyacheslav Molotov, Ivan Likhachev, Sergei Kirov ... Picture Collage Shaikhet "Bitter speaks to rabselkorami", filmed at the address of the writer in Moscow club to them. Kuhmisterova on "How I became a writer," so pleased with wording "Spark" that she ordered an artist Isaac Brodsky, picture on this subject, a reproduction of which was published in the journal number 15 in 1929.

Arkady Shaikhet Manual carpet kolkhoz" Bolshevik ", Kabarda, 1930 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Arkady Shaikhet demonstration in Tbilisi. Oxen and the tram. May 1, 1928 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

During numerous trips to Central Asia Shaikhet documents as a traditional oriental way of life ("Everything in the past," " Uzbek woman in a burqa with children "," Mulla, and elder, "" in the Uzbek Arba "," Smoking a hookah. "), and the Soviet innovations" Volleyball in the courtyard of the mosque "," Pamir highway. Rollers, "" Uzbek under a new sun. Ambulance "," Car and ass »).

Editors 'Spark' sends Shaikhet cover many political processes -" Shakhty case, "1928" Process Industrial Party, "1929," The process of the Mensheviks Internationalists, "1931 - the courts were going to the Hall of Columns in Moscow.

Arkady Shaikhet Construction Turksib. The first train crosses the joint. Sing the "Internationale." April 28, 1930 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Arkady Shaikhet All of the past. Uzbek woman in a burqa and with children. Uzbekistan, 1928 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

the summer of 1931 Friends of the Soviet Union in Austria took the initiative to organize an exhibition of photographs and diagrams showing the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union. The exhibition opened in Vienna, as part of preparing her photographic "Soyuzfoto." A separate section was a series of photographs "The Day of Moscow's working families," which became a model example of Soviet photo essay. Work on a series of guided editor of "Soviet Photo" Leonid Mezhericher, who invited Arcadia Shaikhet off, "as he lives, works, studies and family rests Filippov," factory worker "Red Proletarian" ... Due to the heavy workload and tight deadlines, it was decided to recruit Max Alpert and Solomon Tulesa - so, "Brigadier-method" photographers have documented the events in different places and at different times, followed by the formation of a joint coherent and consistent story (nursery, club, Factory Area, Culture Park, a newspaper in the break, courses, club, new house, a store-distributor, buying a new suit, a family tea party at the samovar, journey to work in the tram ...).

Arkady Shaikhet factory" Red Proletarian ". Working with the banner. First Five-Year Plan. Moscow, 1930 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Arkady Shaikhet at the helm Komsomolets paper machine. Balakhna, 1929 Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Also in 1931 photojournalists ( S. Friedland , M. Alpert, etc.), the Russian Association of Proletarian organize Photographers - ROPF, in which an active part and Arkady Shaikhet. The magazine "Proletarian Photo" ROPF led a fierce debate with a group of "October» ( , B. Ignatovich , E. Langman , B. Kudoyarov ...), representing the left-over in photography. Resolution of the CPSU (b) 1932 "On Restructuring of Literary and Artistic Organizations" stopped the discussion, and with it has led to the dissolution of the groups themselves. Sam A. Shaikhet later recalled: "In fighting against the methods of" oktyabrevtsev "who gave a generous tribute to the fashion then the formalism, I nevertheless found in their works a lot for myself interesting and useful».

The second part of a retrospective of Arcadia Shaikhet prepared by the Museum "Moscow House of Photography" - is relatively "dovzletny" moment in the work and creativity of the photographer and painter, who managed to survive, to reflect and to comprehend the plastic events, controversies and achievements of its era.

Maria Zhotikova-Shaikhet

Source : Press Release Mamma