The first annual summer photography festival “Hidden Perspective” has started at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. Until September 29, events dedicated to both classics of photography and works by contemporary authors will be held within it. The main event was the project “The Origins of Soviet Photography. 1920-1930” from the collection of the Lumière Gallery.
The exhibition narrates the first decades of the history of Soviet photography and brings together famous and little-known shots by classics of photo reportage: Arkady Shaikhet, Yakov Khalip, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mikhail Prekhner, Naum Granovsky. The exhibition consists of six monographic sections, revealing the creativity of each. The central area presents vintage prints from the 1920s and 1930s, which are rarely shown publicly.
“We consider this project as a gift from the museum to all those who love and are passionate about photography. It is no coincidence that we are opening the first photography festival on the theme of Soviet photography of the 1920s and 1930s, as exhibitions related to the avant-garde are the DNA of our museum, located in the architectural monument of Konstantin Melnikov,” said Kristina Krasnyanskaya, Executive Director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
An exhibition of the artist Yegor Ostrov opened earlier at the Stella di Mosca hotel. The spaces display 11 works by the author. We discuss them in more detail here.
