Today opens the exhibition of the famous Lithuanian photographer Romualdas Pozharskii "Large Form". The exhibition features more than seventy-author of fingerprints of the seven major cycles created from 1974 to 2005

Center of photography. lumière
13 August @5 October. 2014
Moscow, Bolotnaya embankment, 3, pp. 1

Today in the Center of the photograph. Lumiere brothers opened the exhibition of Romualdas Pozharskii. In Moscow such a large-scale work of the famous Lithuanian photographer was not yet available. The exhibition "Grand Form" included more than seventy author of fingerprints of the seven major cycles, created between 1974 and 2005 God@

the Lithuanian school of photography in the second half of the last century produced a revolution in the minds of a whole generation of photographers, becoming a breath of fresh Baltic air in a situation of total official Soviet photography. The origins of Lithuanian schools and the impact of her fathers-основателей, and now the classics of world photography A. Sutkus, A. Macijauskas, R. Rakauskas, etc. in the works Pozharskii read unconditionally. Here and humanistic basis, and the worship of mother earth and man, and poignant lyricism, and the attraction to the genre of literary reportage, rising to the works of photographers Agency Magnum.

having received a powerful impetus Lithuanian school of photography, student-инженер Kaunas Polytechnic Romualdas Pozherskis declares himself as a photographer with the independent look and vibrant visual language in the first series of "Victories and defeats" (1974-1976). Seemingly trivial boyish theme motocross lens Pozharskii turns into a serious, thoughtful narrative about delicate private and collective psychology of the experience of victories and defeats. Krasiva genre of reportage psychological portrait, the author reaches the generalization is much more profound than can be expected from the sports material. In focus — not motocross racing as such, but people (rider and spectator), immersed in a world of their mixed emotions and sostoyanii@

Romualdas Pozherskis thinks big photo-проектами, each of which — this is a complete aesthetic and documentary narration. Resorting to literary terminology, it can be argued that it tends to be a "great shape", epic storytelling, global generalizations. The choice of topics, depth of disclosure, the visual language of documentary prose by-настоящему epic. His extensive cycles, each of which he devotes many years of continuous work, to present an exhaustive story about the chosen topic in the center of which — consistently —. "Art — this is an opportunity to approach the person and not just a pretty picture or uncontrolled expression of the artist", @says. Pozerski@

Working on the series "ancient towns of Lithuania" (1974-1982), the author set himself the task —; to show the relationship between man and city in the genre of street-фотографии, virtually absent in Lithuania and the Soviet Union. While aesthetically adjustment, rakursnoi and bright graphics frame, Pozherskis focuses on the content: "the Fact that real life for me is much more interesting striking abstract composition". In banned in the Soviet time series "Lithuanian pilgrimage" (1974-1994) R. Pozherskis sensitively tells of the unseen — spiritual life of the Lithuanian people. The same theme from a different perspective sounds in the series of "memory Gardens" (1977-2004).

Romualdas not trying to keep up with global visual culture. His photography is in contrast to the modern aesthetics of the "cold" documentaries, where people like not the main character and exists only as an object being photographed. The feature works R. Pozharskii is the empathy he feels for his characters: the children that inhabit almost all of its cycles (series "Children's hospital", 1976-1982); old men from the "Last refuge" (1983-1990); to those who are a little less lucky than the rest, and who unfairly rejected by the society (a series of "Woes and joys of little Alphonse", 1992-2005). The exhibition in the Center of the photograph will be a creative meeting with the author and his автограф-сессия.

Source: lumiere.ru