Today at the Multimedia Art Museum opens exhibition of the photographer Eleazar Langman, constitute along with Rodchenko and Ihnatouski core fotoobedineniya "October", but today virtually unknown

Multimedia Art Museum, July 18 - September 8, 2013
st. Ostozhenka, 16

Today at the Multimedia Art Museum opened an exhibition of photographs of Eleazar Langman "Concentration frame. 1920 - 1940 ».

of Eleazar Langman Leap into the water. 1932 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

of Eleazar Langman The collective farm "Khleborob." 1930 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Eleazar Langman M. (1895-1940) remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Soviet photography in the 1930s. Around his name, as well as around the names Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander and Boris Ignatovich , together made up the core of the photographic association "October", seething passion.

Today, however, his work is almost unknown. No credible evidence of either life or death photographer. Archive masters - negatives, photographs, documents, manuscripts (he published an article in the "Soviet photo"), seems to be lost, since the latter years of his life Langman after divorcing his wife did not have a permanent shelter and wandered from one another in the darkroom.

Exhibition Eleazar Langman - an attempt to bring together the disparate facts, documents and images and give the most complete picture of the person and work of this brilliant and original photographer.

of Eleazar Langman In the Kazakh school. 1934 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

of Eleazar Langman Portrait of a girl. 1934 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Langman started from the formal principles of A . Rodchenko, but developed his own individual style. Among the other members of the "October" Langman - the most extreme, frank and bold experimenter. By comparison, Rodchenko - more than is classical, Ignatovitch - a narrator in the report, Mr Gryuntal - more careful with camera angles and slopes.

of Eleazar Langman Portrait of a girl. 1934 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

of Eleazar Langman Ilamabaev and Kuzishtabaev. 1934 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Langman explained the" cosine "in his photographs, for which he so abused by Soviet critics as "a protest against the stamp seryatiny in photography." In the mid-1930s, when she "slant" has become a cliché Langman set out to other tasks. He was trying to give up the slope and angle, while retaining the expressiveness of a composite image. In the magazine "USSR in Construction", devoted to Kazakhstan, and photo album "10 Years of Uzbekistan" first appeared Langmann shot portraits. Point of view - a little below the maximum close-up, a clear study of individuals.

of Eleazar Langman player in the pool. 1928-1930 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

of Eleazar Langman Alexander Rodchenko with a cigarette. 1930 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Group" October "and photos Langman played a catalytic role in shaping the style of avant-garde photography in Russia, the journalistic style of photography. Langman for his work proved that solving the problem reporter, can remain an artist.

He caught moments of life - both positive and negative: the drunks on the streets, fortune-tellers in the park, street. But the pictures of this type of printing did not fall: this reality did not fit in "light" image of the future.

of Eleazar Langman Tverskaya street in the evening. 1935 Author gelatin silver print Private collection, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

of Eleazar Langman The parachute rig. Central Park of Culture and Rest them. Gorky Moscow. 1939 Author gelatin silver print Collection MAMM Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Langman was friends with writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov and not just filmed this famous duo at work, but also influenced by the nature of your photos of the pictures of Ilya Ilf, who was a keen enthusiast and filmed sketches - urban views, passers-portraits.

Snapshots are stored inside Langman saturation, calculated. Taking advantage of his little "watering can", he concentrated information, form and space in the frame.

Source : press release MAMM