Exhibition "Photoclub Novator. 20th Century"

About exhibition

The exhibition "Photoclub Novator. 20th Century" presents works by Boris Ignatovich, Igor Palmin, Alexey Vasiliev, Pavel Ivchenko, Yuri Lunkov, Rustam Agasyants, Alexander Soldatov, Elena Glazacheva, Boris Dolmatovsky, Yuri Korovin, Georgy Kolosov and other authors. The display also includes, among others, masterpieces by the classics of Soviet photography and the initiators of the Moscow photoclub Novator — Alexander Khlebnikov, Vasily Ulitin and Georgy Soshalsky. Each of them devoted decades to photography. The exhibition features works from the 1960s–1990s. This period marks the heyday of amateur photography in the country: cameras began to appear in almost every Soviet household, and the state supported the creation of photoclubs at Houses of Culture. At that time it became possible to work in almost every photographic genre — from still lifes, reportage and portraits to the nude. The project "Photoclub Novator. 20th Century" continues the systematic study of Soviet and Russian photography by specialists at ROSFOTO. In total, the exhibition shows more than 150 original prints by the authors — works by the Novator masters have not been shown on this scale for over half a century. After such a long hiatus, ROSFOTO once again turns to the legacy of one of the country's best-known and oldest photoclubs, which continues to exist today.