Today at the Jewish Museum and the tolerance center opens an exhibition of photographs by Emmanuel Yevzerikhin from the Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein)

Jewish Museum and tolerance center,
2 October @November 17. 2013
Moscow, Obraztsova str., 11, p. 1A

Today Jewish Museum and tolerance center in conjunction with the Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein) present the photo exhibition Emmanuel Yevzerikhin "Photos, which was not. From the Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein)".

the Exhibition consists of photographs taken by Emmanuel Everyhing in 1957, 1960 and 1965 in Moscow, in the Big choral synagogue. They depict such important for Jewish community life and events as the publication of the prayer book "Peace," the opening of yeshivas "Kol-Яаков", holding Easter services, as well as the interior of the synagogue and its members. In a separate series can distinguish photographs of people that does not fit in the building and accumulated on the so-called "hill" Arkhipova street (now druzhinnikovskaya lane).

the exhibition presents most of the photos of the three series. The touching intimacy of the celebration, the unity of the crowded meeting, participating in the sacrament rite, contrasting with the sunlit street, filled with parishioners and "people in mufti". Also in the picture are regular visitors and foreign guests and reporters, and representatives of diplomatic missions, and is known throughout the community, the now legendary rabbis — Solomon Shlifer, Yehuda Leib Levin, Shimon Breviary, REB Gece. Peaceful festive atmosphere of the Central Moscow lane beautifully artistic techniques characteristic of the works of Immanuel Yevzerikhin. Archival materials that reveal the essence of the so-called "religious" Jewish question in the USSR, formed the basis of the text accompaniment vystavki@

Photographing religious buildings and religious practice in the Soviet Union was not welcomed, rare footage of the interiors of churches, mosques or synagogues was done most often commissioned by the editors to illustrate the content of the propaganda wing —; for example, about the absence of Soviet religious persecution. These images have never been published in full and are preserved only in the form of negatives in a personal archive fotografa@

the exposition also presents well-known iconic photos of Emmanuel Yevzerikhin — avant-garde compositional decisions in the spirit of advanced artistic quest 1930-х, its impressive precision and emotional expressiveness military chronicle, the country's recovery from the ruins, the development of the peaceful sky and space and the success of the national economy of the postwar years — all main stages of the life of our country passed through the lenses of his cameras. In the photo chronicle of Emmanuel Yevzerikhin captures the life of the USSR for more than a half-century period. Now it is supplemented by Chapter on religious traditions, surviving in the harsh persecution and ostentatious religious tolerance. Exposure "Photos that were not" Jewish Museum and tolerance center opens a series of joint projects with Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein), and begins a series of photographic exhibitions, which plans to show the public the best works of recognized masters of this type iskusstva@

Emmanuel noyevich Yevzerikhin (1911-1984) — one of the leading masters of Soviet photography. From 1926 — freelancer "Press-клише TASS", from 1933 — staff writer photo TASS. During the great Patriotic war was filmed on many fronts, participated in the liberation of European cities. After the war he continued his collaboration with TASS, taught and traveled with lectures around the country. Participated in many group exhibitions, as well as several personalny@

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