Today, the Gallery offers classic photography exhibition, which features over 300 works of photographers Sokornova V., V. Ulitina, A. Khlebnikov, G. Soshalskaya, J. Rost, J. Palmin, G. Kolosova, and other

Alexander Kitaev
ballerina Irma Nioradze -" The Swan "
From the series "Ballet". 1997
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Gallery of classic photography, April 20 - May 20, 2012
Moscow, Savvinskaya Quay, 23, Bldg. 1

Museum of organic crops with classic photos Gallery opens an exhibition today, "Outpost of Russian photography».

«What is at stake, in the game, en jeu - the place of reality, the question of its extent. Probably no surprise that the picture appeared as a process facilitator in the industrial age, when reality began to fade ... <...> Reality has managed to mutate into an image »( Jean Baudrillard ).

This change reality way - an important feature of art photography, especially in Russia, then in the Soviet Union, and then - again in Russia. In fact, she played a cruel joke with the development of this art in our country for nearly 60 years (from 1930 to 1990) by replacing it with a picture of reality in general manner was not adhered by the art. As an ideological instrument of manipulation? Yes. As a statement of the fact that the country began to live better, life has become happier? Absolutely. "The Soviet report" was the documentary, the most valid. But the work here and it did not go. Of paramount importance, "a clear idea of ​​social purpose and the" idea "snapshot." Photo moved to the rank of politics. The starting point (with countdown), after which the artistic photos preferred not to remember, was the exhibition "Masters of Soviet Photography" in 1935. There pompous, it is true, some chided, a prize of work A. Greenberg - but soon he was sentenced to five years. Planted and Basil Ulitina. Some photographers have emigrated. Their names have been forgotten for a long time.

Of course, this was the general situation related to art and culture in the USSR. The Party and the government is actively interested in this field of activity, and the focus of their interests censorship hit music, painting, and, of course, literature and theater. But none of these arts was not so questioned the right of the artist on the creative subjective nature, the right of the master in his own way to see and capture the world.

Despite this, in art photography Soviet Union was, it was developed not only in the main - permitted by the authorities - the mainstream. Suppose that the marginalization of the periphery, do not notice the theorists and critics, pursued by the authorities, artistic photography live by their own laws, its development program rehearsed, retained its genetic code - and the right to transform reality into an artistic image.

The purpose of the exhibition at the Gallery of the classic photos - to show the history of Russian photography, which at first glance looks like a discrete, discontinuous, a phenomenon where one did not seem related to another, and history seems detached from contemporary photographs. But it is only at first glance. Even in the darkest years of tradition, art photography, so to speak, from hand to hand maintained and passed. Despite the fact that the exhibition of 1935 has set, it would seem, all points on the i, where most of those "masters of Soviet photography" that admired both in Russia and the West, thoroughly forgotten in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s were photoclub appear. There were dozens if not hundreds, of different cities and republics. In photo clubs involved are not professionals and amateurs. And it has allowed many to escape from compulsory for professional photographic templates of Soviet socialist realism. But a much greater extent this contributed to the founding of clubs - for example, A. Khlebnikov , G. Soshalsky, who organized the most popular Soviet photo club "Innovator." There also entered and was convicted in the 1930 W. Ulitin. When dealing with such masters, youth practice comprehended practical techniques and theoretical developments of artistic photograph.

not stopped the pulse of life and art photography in the country for heavy 1990s, when compensated for the years dropped the Iron Curtain and the amount of power in the country surged values ​​of the West, which turned out not always valuable.

See heartbeat pulse of this - powerful in the late XIX - early XX century, almost frozen in the middle of last century and thrills, punctuated at the end of the 1990s and today - to see and trace the genetic code of Russian photography, to show the work of those who have always been at the forefront of Russian art photography - this is the goal of the exhibition 'Outpost of Russian photography. "

The exhibition features over 300 works by photographers Sokornova V., V. Ulitina, A. Khlebnikov, G. Soshalskaya, J. Rost, J. Palmin, G. Kolosov, G. Lukyanov A. Kitaev, L. Tabolin, S. Chabutkin, A. Slyusareva, A. Niyazov, A. Viktorov, B. Buivid , Golosovsky M., A. Chezhina, Valentin V. Samarin , A. Vasiliev, A. Fursova, M. Dashevsky, A. Voitenko, I. Steen, and A. Firsov, C. Leontief . By the opening of the exhibition released two albums - "Outpost" and "Outpost 2" in which the works of the exhibitors.

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