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Photobiennale-2010
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March 11 - June 27
From March 10 to June 27 Moscow welcomes the VIIIth International Photography Month "Photobiennale-2010" featuring exhibitions on three major themes: "Vive la France!", "Retrospectives", and "Perspectives". Lots of 'must-visit' large retrospectives of Magnum Agency photographers (Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Elliot Erwitt) takes place at the Central Exhibition Center "Manezh" as a part of "The Year of France in Russia" as well as Sarah Moon's film about one of the most "photographic" publishers ever Robert Delpire. "Moscow-Paris" exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art features the best works by Russian and French photographers while undergoing a training courses that have been organized by Moscow and Paris mayor's offices for 14 years. This year Moscow's Photobiennale welcomes the archive of the largest international photography festival "The Meetings of Arles" that has a forty-year history focusing on the most fascinating and significant trends in the world of photography. The national Center of Plastique Arts (CNAP) presents "Mosaic" – a specially prepared exhibition covering the theme of youth - a project of Ministry of Culture in France.
Altogether "Photobiennale-2010" features more than 20 showrooms, galleries and other venues in Moscow including Manezh, Novy Manezh, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Ekaterina Cultural Fund, Na Solyanke Gallery, Project_Fabrika to name a few.
Photobiennale Featured Exhibitions
March 19 - April 18
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (France)
 Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founding father of photojournalism and one of the great photographers of all time, put down his Leica professionally in 1975 after a 45-year career behind the camera. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a shy Frenchman who elevated "snap shooting" to the level of a refined and disciplined art. His sharp-shooter’s ability to catch "the decisive moment," his precise eye for design, his self-effacing methods of work, and his literate comments about the theory and practice of photography made him a legendary figure among contemporary photojournalists. His pictures and picture essays were published in most of the world’s major magazines during three decades, and Cartier-Bresson prints hang in the leading art museums of the United States and Europe. "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject," he wrote in ‘The Decisive Moment’. "The little human detail can become a leitmotif." Most of his photography is a collection of such little, human details; concerned images with universal meaning and suggestion.
Manezh
March 19 - April 18
Martine Franck: Photographer (Belgium/France)
 Martine Franck has been taking photographs since the mid-1960s and has accumulated one of the most remarkable bodies of work in the history of the medium. She joined the VU photographic agency in 1970, married Henri Cartier-Bresson the next year, and in 1972 helped establish the Viva agency in Paris. She then began her long-term project of photographing the elderly, the results of which first appeared as a book "Le Temps de Viellir" in 1980. Three years later she became a full member of the Magnum agency, and since then she has worked around the world making memorable images of everything from Tibetan tulkus, to Robert Wilson’s work for the Comedie-Francaise, to the tiny community of Tory Island, Donegal, Ireland. In addition, she is a close friend of Ariane Mnouchkine, founder of the Theatre du Soleil, and has photographed the company throughout her career.
Manezh
March 19 - April 18
Elliott Erwitt: Retrospective (France/USA)
 With a touch of humour and an eye for the humane, Elliott Erwitt's black and white photographs reveal the most basic and candid human emotions. He developed his vision during the post-war rise of documentary photojournalism, and has captured many of life's most poignant ironies through an amusing vernacular. Born in Paris and raised in California and New York, Erwitt has pursued a photographic career in journalism, fashion, and print advertisement. His personal work has been published in countless monographs, and he has been a member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1953. His photographs are collected and exhibited in museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kunsthaus, Zurich.
Manezh
March 19 - June 27
Peter Lindbergh: Invasion. Cinema (Germany)
 Since the 1980s, Peter Lindbergh has been one of the most-discussed interpreters of fashion internationally. he photographs in black-and-white using a pictorial language that takes its lead from early German cinema and from the free dance of the 1920s. In 1978, a much-admired fashion feature in Stern magazine marked the starting point of his international career as a fashion photographer. Peter moved to Paris the same year. Initially he worked work for Vogue, first the Italian version, then the English, French and German and American ones, later for Marie-Claire, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure and Rolling Stone. In 1992, he signed a four-year contract with the American Harper's Bazaar in New York. At the same time he handled campaigns for Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Prada, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein. Portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich and many others.
Manezh
March 19 - June 27
Paolo Roversi: Studio (Italy)
 Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Paolo Roversi is known internationally for his romantic, intense, and ethereal fashion images and portraits, photographs that quiver on the edge of their own seemingly fragile existence. A typical Roversi picture appears as if captured in the process of becoming - it develops on the page before our very eyes or, depending on perspective, it might simply vanish into the ether. Since 1980 Roversi has worked primarily with 8-by-10 inch Polaroids, and rarely on location. "Studio" is a milestone in his burgeoning bibliography. In images that represent nearly two decades of work, the collection offers a self-portrait of the artist and a window into the place where he creates his art. These photographs are a mix of both the published and the highly personal, but all have the intimacy engendered by that place where Roversi feels most at home.
Manezh
March 11 - April 11
Rena Effendi: Pipe Dreams (Azerbaijan)
 Award-winning documentary photographer Rena Effendi's exhibition and book launch of her celebrated "Pipe Dreams" project, a compilation of more than six years work. Effendi's book "Pipe Dreams: A chronicle of lives along the pipeline" depicts her journey through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, following the 1,700 km Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline - and documenting changes of life in these countries, each affected in their own way by the oil industry. The central character of this story - the Pipeline - is never physically present in her images but is depicted through portraits of people who have been impacted by its presence - resulting in impoverished interiors, and decimated landscapes. Rena Effendi reveals a reality very far from the glossy pictures of the oil conglomerates corporate calendars. She contrasts the images of the new Baku, with its luxurious apartments and increasingly wealthy inhabitants with the stories of people who live right next to the pipeline but struggle daily with poverty. For this project Rena Effendi has been honored with the Getty Editorial Grant and Magnum Foundation's Caucasus Photography Award, and exhibited in the Venice and Istanbul biennials.
Gallery.Photographer.ru
March 24 - April 18
Francoise Huguier: Kommunalka (France)
 Francoise Huguier is one of the great reportage photographers, winning the World Press Photo Prize in 1993. "Kommunalka" (Communal Apartment) is a series of photographs that were taken while renting a room in a communal apartment in Saint Petersburg. Francoise says: "My very first days in these communal apartments in St Petersburg were absolutely perplexing, and I realised it would take me several stays and an inside contact to get to the bottom of these weird, closed-off environments. Over several years I photographed the place and the daily life of the residents – and especially of Natasha, who set the rhythm of my visits. Implicitly, and without my realising it, she became the main strand in my narrative and in my desire to be there and stay there. She embodies the quintessence of these communal worlds and the magnetism of a city that has been gnawing at me for so many years.
Schusev State Museum of Architecture
March 26 - April 25
Pierre Boulat: Retrospective (France)
 Mr. Boulat began his career at the Paris magazine Samedi Soir in 1945, photographing everything from the singer Edith Piaf to life in Palestine. His photograph of a tornado over Paris was published in Life in 1953; with an orange filter, it looked like a nuclear nightmare. This photo began his 23-year relationship with the magazine. Among the personalities he photographed for Life were Aristotle Onassis, Arthur Rubinstein, Karen Blixen, Federico Fellini, Truman Capote and Duke Ellington. Mr. Boulat became an independent photographer in 1973. Among Boulat's well-known subjects: the first French tourists in the Soviet Union in 1955; a study of the U.S. Military Academy; and the filming of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was 73 and died in Nemours, France.
Zurab Gallery
March 30 - April 25
Alexander Borodulin: Retrospective - Part I
 Alexander Borodulin, the son of the eminent Soviet photographer Lev Borodulin, began taking photographs at the age of 14. On Moscow streets he sought for subjects and situations that opposed official Soviet ideology, becoming as he himself admits "the photo dissident of the day"'. In 1974 he moved to USA and worked as a sports photographer for Time Life. Borodulin moved to France in 1980 and signed a contract with 'France Soir' magazine. In Paris he lived with the famous American model Beth Todd.' Beth was a muse, model, organiser, make-up artist, hairdresser and stylist for my shoots. She taught me to see and understand fashion.' Borodulin's photographs appeared on the pages of 'Marie Claire', 'Officielle', 'Sports Illustrated', 'Time'. In 1988 Alexander Borodulin returned to Moscow on a commission from American 'Playboy' to find and photograph Russian girls for the 'Women of Russia' feature. This photo reportage became the most successful and expensive project in the magazine's history.
Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery
March 30 - April 25
Valery Shchekoldin: Inverse Perspective
 "When I shot this series of photographs about our beloved visual agitprop and the primitive political disinformation that foolishly persisted even if nobody took it seriously, I understood that you have to see the humour there. I thought up a new tendency called 'Sots-Cretinism' (analogous with Sots-Realism, or Socialist Realism) and set out to reveal the absurdity of the system. When I had enough photographs for this series I pasted them in an album and envisaged publishing a book entitled 'The Art of Degeneration'. But the Soviet regime was still in full swing: Brezhnev had only just died, Andropov was still alive - there was no thaw in sight and on the contrary, the system seemed set to tighten screws. So I viewed the book with a touch of humour too, and meanwhile went on collecting material. Now that period has become history, but history does have a strange habit of repeating itself. Everyone has their own pastime."
Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery
April 10 - May 10
Anthony Suau: Fall from Grace (USA)
 Anthony Suau was born in Illinois, USA, in 1956 and after graduating worked for six years as a staff photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Denver Post. He moved to New York in 1985, working with the Black Star photo agency. In 1991 he became a contract photographer for Time magazine. Between 1987 and 2008 Suau was based in Europe. Suau's publications include books on Chechnya, the genocide in Rwanda, and the US invasion of Iraq. In 1999 he completed ‘Beyond the Fall', a project documenting the transformation of the former Soviet bloc. This led to a book, and an exhibition in London, New York, Washington and more than a dozen cities throughout Europe. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize for his images of famine in Ethiopia and a Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the war in Chechnya.
Ekaterina Cultural Fund
April 10 - May 10
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Archaeologists (Germany)
 Bernd and Hilla Becher already commenced their joint photographic work while they were studying. Having been fascinated since their early childhood by the shape and function of the winding towers, reprocessing plants, furnaces, cooling towers and the timbered houses typical for the Siegerland area, they decided to document these structures photographically. Bernd and Hilla documented objects in industrial areas of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and the USA. The photographs are decidedly factual and restricted to black and white, thus giving on spectacular impression at first sight. The works’ composition predominantly focuses on the structure and construction of the buildings, which are always free-standing and placed in the centre of the picture. The motifs are in perspective and frontal, but generally photographed under the same conditions of lighting and weather. The works are always devoid of people. The impressive “typologies” of industrial buildings thus created are highly distinctive in their pictorial language.
Ekaterina Cultural Fund
April 10 - May 10
Sabine Weiss: Half a Century of Photography (Switzerland)
 Sabine Weiss is the female counterpart to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and the Werner Bischofs. Sabine Weiss has been photographing people with the same unflaggingly tender curiosity for the past 45 years. A member of the Rapho agency since 1953, she has become associated with a line of so-called 'humanist' photographers who played a key role in the history of the 1950s and 60s. She has produced many fashion pieces and portraits of celebrities and artists for Vogue magazine, and in addition to her commissioned work she has always made pictures 'for herself'. She has gradually turned almost exclusively to black and white reportage, a medium that expresses the relationship between Man and his world more 'calmly and simply' and which captures the 'plenitude of light' that has been her obsession.
Ekaterina Cultural Fund
April 09 - April 24
Elger Esser (Germany)
 Born in Stuttgart, the photographer Elger Esser works with the aesthetic approach while experimenting with new digital processing technology. He uses found photographs as a basis, such as hand-colored postcards dating from around 1900, enlarging and processing them as well as emphasizing his own choice of color tones. The resulting images resemble paintings of distant memories, imbued with the magic of a lost epoch. Esser's focus on seascapes and landscapes invites a confrontation with his great predecessors in painting such as Gustave Courbet and Camille Pissarro and photography of the great pioneers from the 19th century. Elger grew up in Rome and studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. He has exhibited internationally, such as in New York, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Hamburg, Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Munich.
Novy Manezh
April 30 - May 23
James Hill: Victory Day (UK)
 Moscow Museum of Modern Art unveils British artist James Hill's exhibition "Victory Day" as a part of the eighth International Photography Month "Photobiennale-2010". The exposition timed to the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, features black-and-white portraits of Russian veterans made during the last four years. The idea occurred to James in 2006. He was so impressed by the Russian tradition to pay a tribute to the war veterans in annual celebrations that he decided to take pictures of them in Gorky Park. For 4 years James Hill made portraits of more than 400 veterans with each of them receiving an instant photo as a gift for letting photograph them. "Victory Day" reflects modern Russia history with its painful and unique experience. James Hill's portraits of the veterans evoked a warm response abroad as well – in 2007 they were published in American Photo magazine's special issue.
Zurab Gallery
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