Lumiere Gallery

About museum

The Lumiere Gallery was founded by Natalia Grigoryeva-Litvinskaya in 2001 and is one of the earliest Moscow photography museums. It presents well-known foreign and Soviet authors and owns a large collection of Soviet photography, comprising 13,300 prints produced between the 1920s and the 1990s. During that time it has held more than 200 exhibitions, published 12 monographs by authors and exhibited works by notable photographers such as Boris Ignatovich, Yakov Khalip, Mikhail Prekhner, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuil Evzerikhin and Arkady Shaikhet. The gallery also features architectural photographs by Naum Granovsky, Igor Palmin and Vladimir Antoshchenkov, as well as wartime chronicles by Alexander Ustinov, Yevgeny Khaldei and Mikhail Trakhman. In addition, the gallery represents Lithuanian classics — Antanas Sutkus, Aleksandras Maciauskas and Romualdas Pozerskis. Finally, the gallery also presents the best works of masters of European and American photography: Elliott Erwitt, William Klein, Ruth Orkin and Steve Schapiro.