Primrose - Russian Colour Photography
25 January - 3 April 2013
The title of the exhibition refers to the primrose flower, used
metaphorically here to represent the many colours in which it
appears during early spring. Primrose, Russian Colour
Photography presents a retrospective of the various attempts
in Russia to produce coloured photographic images. This process
began in the early 1850s, almost simultaneously with the discovery
of the new medium itself. The colouring technique, based on the
traditional methods of craftsmen who added colour into a certain
contour design, has determined a whole independent trend in the
history of photography in Russia, from 'postcard' landscapes and
portraits to Soviet propaganda and reportage photography.
Primrose - Russian Colour Photography can be
viewed as a journey through various techniques and genres, meanings
and messages, mass practices and individual experiments. The
exhibition contains works by renowned photographers and artists
such as Ivan Shagin, Dmitry Baltermants, Sergey Prokudin-Gorski,
Alexander Rodchenko, Vladislav Mikosha and Boris Mikhailov.
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