The Russian photography of the 1920 - 1930s
For the first time, Budapest Art Fair enriches his cultural offering with an accompanist exhibition. This selection of twenty years from the best photographer’s life-work of the era will be organized in a separate hall of Műcsarnok for the four days of the Budapest Art Fair.
The 80 photos are contemporary prints from original negatives. Alexander Rodchenko and his contemporaries – Boris Ignatovich, Elizaveta Ignatovich and Michael Prekhner - give the constructivism part of the exhibition. Shaikhet, Evzerikhin, Shagin, Egorov and Markov-Grinberg will represent the New Soviet reportage, which shows the private life, culture and propaganda. The 1920s and 1930s were the most dramatic years in the history of Russian photography of the 20th century. New social order established after October Revolution of 1917 gave rise to a new soviet ideology of social equality and justice. Not only the photographers, but young writers, artists, film dierctors and musicians took part in building this new world! Next to the european traditions of pictorial or „salon” photography, a new style was born. Rodchenko, the leader of this new style invented new possibilities of dynamic vision avai- lable through constructivist composition. This was sig- nificant for finding new photographic language.This exhibition is a mutual project of the Russian Union of Art Photographers institution, The State Russian Centre of Photograpy and Budapest Art Fair.
