The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center is launching its annual summer photography festival, Hidden Perspective, with events spanning both classic photography and contemporary works.
The central event of the first festival, which will be held from July 5 to September 29, will be the exhibition “The origins of Soviet photography. 1920-1930″ from the collection of the Lumière Gallery. The exhibition is dedicated to the first decades of the history of Soviet photography, a period of bold experiments, when innovative solutions in the field of composition, camera angles, Photo framing and collage became the basis of a new visual language that satisfied all range of propaganda tasks of the Soviet state.
The exhibition consists of six monographic sections, revealing the work of each photographer through series and photographic essays, the main genre of Soviet photojournalism in the mid-1930s. The footage, which has become a textbook, is dedicated to amazing historical events in the life of the country, city and country life, agriculture and production, the changing image of Moscow and the everyday life of the younger generation.
The exhibition includes more than two hundred works selected by Lumiere Gallery curator Natalia Grigorieva-Litvinskaya specifically for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center project. The unique prints, collected over the past thirty years, have previously been shown in group and personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad, but the public will see them for the first time in this composition.
Recall that on June 20 in Moscow, in a historical building of the 17th century in Maroseyka, a new cultural institution will open – the AZ/ART contemporary art center.
