Primrose, Russian Coulour Photography

Exhibition: 25 Jan 2013 – 3 Apr 2013

Primrose, Russian Coulour Photography
Piotr Vedenisov, Vera Kozakov in Folk Dress.1914, Collection of Moscow House of Photography Museum © Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography Museum

This exhibition is organised as part of Netherlands-Russia 2013. The title refers to the flower that grows in different colours from early spring. The exhibition offers an overview of different kinds of colour photography in Russia from the 1850s until the end of the twentieth century. The selection of more than two hundred works vary from coloured albumen prints, salt prints and collodion prints to gelatin silver prints and the first real colour photography. 
Recent practices by Anatoly Boldin and Boris Mikhailov are part of this extraordinary exhibition. Also featured are works by important photographers such as Dmitry Baltermants, Alexander Rodchenko and Ivan Shagin.

Primrose, Russian Colour Photography is organised as part of Netherlands-Russia 2013 by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow City Government, Moscow City Culture Department and the Moscow House of Photography. The exhibition is curated by Olga Sviblova and Elena Misalandi.
Primrose, Russian Colour Photography is made possible with the generous support of SICA and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow.

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Artists

Works

  • Yelena Mrozovskaya, "Portrait of girl in Little Russia costume," Saint Petersburg, 1900s, Gelatine silver print, painting, Collection of Moscow House of Photography Museum, © Moscow House of Photography Museum
  • Alexander Rodchenko, "Race," Dynamo Stadium, 1935, Artist’s gelatine silver print, gouache, Collection of Moscow House of Photography Museum , © A. Rodchenko – V. Stepanova Archive ©Moscow House of Photography Museum
  • Robert Diament. He has turned her head. Beginning of 1960s, colour print, collection Moscow House of Photography Museum , © Moscow House of Photography Museum