In St Petersburg cinema center "Home Cinema" exhibition "The City on the Water", which features works by famous photographers of Petersburg late XIX - early XX century, from the archives of St. Petersburg

Cinema Center "Home Movies", May 15 - July 16, 2012
St. Petersburg, St. caravan., 12

cinema center in St Petersburg "Home Cinema" exhibition "The City on the Water", which features works by famous photographers of Petersburg late XIX - early XX century, from the archives of St. Petersburg.

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St. Petersburg was founded on the banks of the Neva , and the river - the main artery of the life of the city - has played an important role in his life. Petersburg and the Neva River are inseparable from each other, and the meaning of such concepts as "Nevsky Capital" and "city on the Neva" is clear to anyone who has ever visited here. Without exaggeration we can say that the element of Petersburg - water. It surrounds the city is not only rivers, canals, the Gulf of Finland, but the atmosphere is saturated with moisture, rain and fog, which used either a child from St. Petersburg. Many urban myths and legends associated with the beauty and awesome power of water. The charm and guile of the Neva River have created a mystical aura of the Northern capital. All this diversity of Petersburg, "the water of life" depicted in the photographs exhibited at the second half of XIX - beginning of XX century.

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Among them are the urban landscapes of one of the most famous shop in St. Petersburg and Boassona Egglera, famous for his portrait work. Photos by pigment in the complex and gummiarabikovoy techniques have undoubted artistic value. It's poetic landscapes, showing a romantic image of St. Petersburg in late afternoon haze, white night, in frost - shape of the mysterious and even mystical. A considerable place is given to the work of N. Matveyev, whose images were used to illustrate the historical and cultural essay, "Petersburg", published in 1913 V.Ya. Kurbatov. Pictures of Matveeva passed a strict and orderly beauty of St. Petersburg, allowing us to see familiar cityscapes in unusual angles.

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In the works of famous masters of the genre of reportage KK Bulla city is seething, busy life. The face of a changing city in his new post-revolutionary state captured in the photographs made by the Leningrad restoration workshop in the 20s of XX century.

Photos submitted by the project "The City on the Water", will allow viewers to look Petersburg through the eyes of photographers on the second half of XIX - beginning of XX century, to plunge into the atmosphere of the city, windswept Baltic and the slave of the water element.

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