The Origins of Soviet Photography. The 1920s – 1930s, an exhibition of prints from the collection of the Lumiere Gallery
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An exhibition of prints from the collection of the Lumiere Gallery titled The Origins of Soviet Photography. The 1920s – 1930s will become the central event of the inaugural festival set to be held at the museum from July 5 to September 29, 2024.
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The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center presents the inaugural edition of the annual summer photography festival Hidden Perspective, celebrating both legendary and contemporary photographers. For the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, photography has always been an important focus as the museum displayed photos at major exhibitions and staged solo shows of works by famous photographers. Studying avant-garde art, of which photography is a big part, is one of the museum’s missions.
An exhibition of prints from the collection of the Lumiere Gallery titled The Origins of Soviet Photography. The 1920s – 1930s will become the central event of the inaugural festival set to be held at the museum from July 5 to September 29, 2024.
The exhibition covers the first decades of Soviet photographic art and its trailblazing experiments, a period when innovative compositions, novel camera angles, cropping, and photomontage were employed to create a new visual vocabulary addressing the entire range of propaganda tasks set by the young Soviet state. It was also a time when documentary photography was developing by leaps and bounds, and photojournalists were regarded as important heralds of change. The exhibition brings together famous and lesser-known pictures taken by some of the most prominent Soviet photojournalists such as Arkady Shaikhet, Yakov Khalip, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mikhail Prekhner, and Naum Granovsky. Contributing to leading official newspapers and magazines, they created images of the world’s first socialist country.
The exhibition is made up of six solo sections, each of which highlights the work of one of the abovementioned photographers by displaying their series and photographic essays, which was arguably the leading genre in Soviet photojournalism in the mid-1930s. These iconic pictures deal with a wide range of themes, including key events in the history of the USSR (such as the hero’s welcome given to the recently rescued crew of SS Chelyuskin shot by Mark Markov-Grinberg and the rescue of the Ivan Papanin-led North Pole-1 expedition shot by Yakov Khalip), the everyday life of big cities and villages (Arkady Shaikhet), agriculture and industry (Mark Markov-Grinberg), Moscow’s evolving cityscape (Naum Granovsky and Mikhail Prekhner), and the lives of youth (Emmanuel Evzerikhin).
The central section of the show features authentic vintage prints made in the 1920s and 1930s and prints made by the photographers later in their careers. The exhibition also includes famous poster-like portraits, embodying the collective image of Soviet people: Komsomol Member Operating a Paper-Making Machine (1929) by Arkady Shaikhet and Distinguished Miner Nikita Izotov (1934) and Cook (1930) by Mark Markov-Grinberg. The exhibition offers visitors a chance to trace the evolution of the photographers’ respective styles and see the contribution Soviet journalists made to originating a new visual language inspired by both ideological and creative experimentation.
The exhibition at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center comprises more than 200 prints, handpicked by the Lumiere Gallery’s curator Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya. These unique photographs, acquired by the gallery over the past 30 years, have been displayed at group and solo shows both in Russia and beyond but have never before been shown together.
The festival also offers a public program, including photography workshops, lectures by notable art historians, roundtables, and film screenings.
Сurated by: Maria Gadas and Valeria Shishkanova
The exhibition is open from: July 5 – September 29, 2024
Age requirement: 18+
Founded by Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya in 2001, the Lumiere Gallery is one of Moscow’s oldest art institutions specializing in photography. Representing renowned Soviet and foreign photographers, the gallery has amassed a formidable collection of Soviet photography from the 1920s to 1990s that includes a total of 13,300 original prints. While focusing on collecting Western and Soviet photography, the Lumiere Gallery also organizes exhibitions, publishes books, and produces educational projects on photography and contemporary art.
Photo: Mikhail Prechner. Aviamodelist, 1930s. © Lumiere Gallery
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An exhibition of prints from the collection of the Lumiere Gallery titled The Origins of Soviet Photography. The 1920s – 1930s will become the central event of the inaugural festival set to be held at the museum from July 5 to September 29, 2024.
The exhibition covers the first decades of Soviet photographic art and its trailblazing experiments, a period when innovative compositions, novel camera angles, cropping, and photomontage were employed to create a new visual vocabulary addressing the entire range of propaganda tasks set by the young Soviet state. It was also a time when documentary photography was developing by leaps and bounds, and photojournalists were regarded as important heralds of change. The exhibition brings together famous and lesser-known pictures taken by some of the most prominent Soviet photojournalists such as Arkady Shaikhet, Yakov Khalip, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mikhail Prekhner, and Naum Granovsky. Contributing to leading official newspapers and magazines, they created images of the world’s first socialist country.
The exhibition is made up of six solo sections, each of which highlights the work of one of the abovementioned photographers by displaying their series and photographic essays, which was arguably the leading genre in Soviet photojournalism in the mid-1930s. These iconic pictures deal with a wide range of themes, including key events in the history of the USSR (such as the hero’s welcome given to the recently rescued crew of SS Chelyuskin shot by Mark Markov-Grinberg and the rescue of the Ivan Papanin-led North Pole-1 expedition shot by Yakov Khalip), the everyday life of big cities and villages (Arkady Shaikhet), agriculture and industry (Mark Markov-Grinberg), Moscow’s evolving cityscape (Naum Granovsky and Mikhail Prekhner), and the lives of youth (Emmanuel Evzerikhin).
The central section of the show features authentic vintage prints made in the 1920s and 1930s and prints made by the photographers later in their careers. The exhibition also includes famous poster-like portraits, embodying the collective image of Soviet people: Komsomol Member Operating a Paper-Making Machine (1929) by Arkady Shaikhet and Distinguished Miner Nikita Izotov (1934) and Cook (1930) by Mark Markov-Grinberg. The exhibition offers visitors a chance to trace the evolution of the photographers’ respective styles and see the contribution Soviet journalists made to originating a new visual language inspired by both ideological and creative experimentation.
The exhibition at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center comprises more than 200 prints, handpicked by the Lumiere Gallery’s curator Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya. These unique photographs, acquired by the gallery over the past 30 years, have been displayed at group and solo shows both in Russia and beyond but have never before been shown together.
The festival also offers a public program, including photography workshops, lectures by notable art historians, roundtables, and film screenings.
Сurated by: Maria Gadas and Valeria Shishkanova
The exhibition is open from: July 5 – September 29, 2024
Age requirement: 18+
Founded by Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya in 2001, the Lumiere Gallery is one of Moscow’s oldest art institutions specializing in photography. Representing renowned Soviet and foreign photographers, the gallery has amassed a formidable collection of Soviet photography from the 1920s to 1990s that includes a total of 13,300 original prints. While focusing on collecting Western and Soviet photography, the Lumiere Gallery also organizes exhibitions, publishes books, and produces educational projects on photography and contemporary art.
Photo: Mikhail Prechner. Aviamodelist, 1930s. © Lumiere Gallery
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