Soviet photography

The Rich History of Soviet Photography Told in 18 Images - Soviet Photo was the beating heart of the USSRs photography scene from 1926 to 1997. The post The Rich History of Soviet Photography Told in 18 Images appeared first on WIRED.

Nailya Alexander Gallery is pleased to present The Art of Photography and Architecture in Soviet Russia: 1920s-1930s, on view online Monday 7 September to Saturday 10 October 2020. Our exhibition explores the relationship between photography and architecture in the Soviet Union during a time of unprecedented artistic, urban, and industrial transformation, when Constructivism began to recede in prominence and Stalinist architecture became the dominant style. The exhibition includes…

fuldagap: “ G. Zelma. Volgograd (1970) ”

From 1927 until after the fall of communism, Russia’s Soviet Photo magazine charted the region’s pioneering visual culture. A new exhibition at Moscow’s Lumiere Centre for Photography celebrates this history

The History of the USSR on Instagram: “This picture depicts an unknown Soviet Border Guard after hours of guarding in the cold, somewhere around the 1960‘s. The photographer is…”

The Jewish Museum’s The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film examines the beginnings of Soviet Russia, positing that the period from 1921 to 1932 was one of avant-garde artistic experimentation, a time when photographers and filmmakers (many of them Jewish) imagined their craft to be as radical as the social changes it reflected.

The Russian word used in the original title, “физкультурники“, is now usually translated as “gym teachers”, but at the moment of the parades meant “sportsmen/bodybuilders or athletes”. This is a…

For their attention to everyday life and their tender spirit, Antanas Sutkus’s photographs in Planet Lithuania often evoke the spirit of Robert Doisneau, André Kertész, or Paul Strand—but Sutkus only discovered their work and that of other photographers of the humanist school much later in life, when he first traveled outside his country in 1992. Cultural isolation meant there was no access to photography books in Lithuania. Sutkus's vast collection of images of everyday life in Lithuania…

Vitaly Butyrin. Eternal Call, Young World, Requiem in Memoriam of V, Untitled, Eternal Call. 1980s.

Nikolai Matorin (1898-1936, Russian), 1960, The Rhythm of Labour