Quiet Resistance - Russian Pictorialism 1900–1930s (Photography Art Ebook).pdf

Аuthor: Sviblova O.
Publisher: Москва: Мультимедийный комплекс актуальных искусств
Year: 2005
Format: PDF
Language: Russian/english
Pages: 191
Size: 44 MB

Russian photographic Avant-Garde of the 1920s and
1930s, represented by Aleksandr Rodchenko, El Lissitzky,
Boris Ignatovich and others, in spite of persecution and
repressive measures of the totalitarian regime, became
a classic part of Russian and world art. Moreover, it became a symbol
of the powerful energy and innovative spirit of Soviet Russia in
the first years after the October revolution of 1917. But few people
realize that at the very same period there was another, pictorial
trend in Russian photography, which strove to approximate photography
to painting, using mainly ‘soft’ lenses and special, often
very sophisticated printing techniques. Pictorial photography challenged
documentary shots and, just like painting, sought to convey
the emotional side of things, and to express the individual senses
and meanings implied by the artist in his work.
The masters of Russian pictorial photography, Alexander
Grinberg, Yury Yeremin, Nikolai Andreev, Nikolai Svishchov-
Paola and others, were firmly a part of the world art scene.
They frequently won gold and silver medals at major international
photo shows and salons in Europe, United States and Japan.
Pictorialism in world photography, born in the late nineteenth century,
has largely exhausted its aesthetic potential by the mid-1920s.
In Soviet Russia, however, it revived just then.