MAMM, September 19 @5 October. 2014
Moscow, Ostozhenka, 16

In the Multimedia Art Museum exhibition "Work — good thing." The exhibition is organized in the form of a kind of dialogue between classics of Russian photography from the collection of the Museum "Moscow House of photography" and the works of contemporary fotografov@

the exhibition opens with the stereo photographs Zakhar Vinogradov (1910-е), this photographer traveled all the Volga region and ethnographic accuracy was recorded on the plates the way of life and numerous crafts of the province of the Russian Empire. Like his predecessors and contemporaries, William Carrick and Maxim, he photographed people at work — merchants in the city squares, fishermen, carpenters, SVA@

All changes radically after the October revolution: discarding old, photographers and other artists set of aesthetic laws. Alexander Rodchenko, Arkady Shaikhet,, Boris Ignatovich, stars of the Russian photographic modernism, made a visual revolution — invented a new perspective, a new type of view that discovered the real beauty of industrial objects and engineering structures. Modern photographers still use findings avant-garde artists that glorify the beauty of power lines and open-hearth cehov@

Post-war Soviet photo 1950-60-х, represented by the works of great photographers @. Dmitri Baltermants, Victor ahlomova, Vladimir Lagrange, picks up the momentum created by constructivists, placing in the center of the frame of man: the worker, the peasant, the scholar. And if Soviet photographers followed the social order, often creating the desired and not the visible reality, the work of contemporary photographers, which according to-прежнему in the center is a man open another (often not capital) a reality where work by-прежнему the chief virtue and Spasenie@

Over the past twenty years, everything that is somehow related to professional topics and theme of the work, as information about moved to another media-сегмент: Central press — in corporate publications. The role of corporate media in society is very high — at least 70% of the production companies working on the territory of Russia, have their own publications. The exhibition presents the work of contemporary photographers, selected by the largest Russian publishing house corporate media ID Medialine, many of them were first published in corporate Newspapers and magazines publishing doma@

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