Photo exhibition "Revolution of people" Automatic translate

In Moscow, at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, a photo exhibition "The Revolution of People" will open, dedicated to the history of the country’s scientific and industrial achievements since 1917.

Ustinov Alexander. XX century. 1962

The joint exhibition project of the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, the Sistema charity foundation and the RTI Concern is based on photographs of Soviet photographic art classics, video evidence and documentary materials from the closed archives of major defense enterprises, which will be open to the public for the first time. In the year of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Revolution, the exhibition shows the revolutionary ideas and developments in the field of high technology, radio engineering, microelectronics, aviation, heavy industry, which were brought to life by scientists, engineers and workers.

Man has always been the most interesting and inexhaustible topic in art. And the image of the man of labor was one of the key images in Soviet photography, which reflected the spiritual values ​​of an individual person, as well as the ideological and socio-historical attitudes of each era. Following the hero, the photographer’s look at him also changed, the approach to shooting, the creative method. Thus, the exhibition will also trace key milestones in the development of the art of photography of the Soviet period. Documentary materials, including photographs from the archives of major industrial enterprises, will become the thematic pillar of the exposition. The history of revolutionary ideas and developments in various fields of science appears through documentary evidence and artistic images of scientists and workers.

One of the key slogans of the October Revolution "Land to the peasants, the factories of the workers!" Was reflected in the revolutionary aspiration of the images of the workers of the 1920-30s in the works of the classics of Soviet photography A. Shaikhet, M. Prehner, M. Markov-Greenberg. In their work, photographers tried to display a rapidly changing country with the help of their own innovative techniques in the field of form: steep, perspective shots of the new industrial world and its heroes. Their photographs showed the inflexibility, will and courage of people of the new formation and literally infected the viewer with faith in a brighter future.

The military reports of Y. Khalip, A. Ustinov, N. Granovsky and many other military photojournalists who shot at the front lines, from trenches, cockpit of aircraft, at defense enterprises, showed a vivid example of a military portrait that called for victory. The heroes of V. Khukhlaev’s essays in the late 1940s and early 1950s were people who worked on the construction sites of newly rebuilt cities and factories. Portraits of this period were distinguished by excessive deliberation and staging, but, nevertheless, infected with optimism.

The thaw brings a mood of freedom and new hopes, as well as a colossal breakthrough in science. In the mid 1950s-1960s photographers E. Khaldei, V. Lagrange, A. Khrupov, Ya. Ryumkin, V. Kunyaev focus their attention on “physicists and lyricists”, refusing to stage and excessive pathos in favor of personal experiences of a person and live reporting. The exposition is completed by the independent social documentary of the 1970–80s of the Triva group (V. Sokolayev, V. Vorobyov).

Thus, through the key portraits included in Soviet photographic classics, archival materials and landmarks in the history of the country, the image of the person through whose forces the revolution in science and technology was created throughout the 20th century appears.

Entrance to the exhibition is free.