Internet and History: Lumiere Gallery to provide online access to collections of classics of Soviet photography

The Lumiere Gallery (Moscow) opens access to collections of classics of Soviet photography as part of the Lumiere Club educational program. It launches separate websites for Naum Granovsky, Ervin Volkov and Yuri Shalamov Foundations. The websites will function as online portals devoted to different masters.

The Gallery has been working on scanning negatives and attributing photographs of these authors for the last ten years. The Lumiere Gallery will provide access to thousands of images by Soviet masters to the general audience. The Gallery also plans to release the collections of Andrei Knyazev and Vladimir Stepanov.

The Lumiere Gallery features works by the chief architectural photographer of the USSR Naum Granovsky, Russian reportage photographer and participant in many foreign exhibitions Yuri Shalamov and Russian-German photographer Erwin Volkov. Alexandra Anisimova, the Gallery curator, said: "Websites with the collections of classics of Soviet photography aim to accumulate on one platform recognized photo masterpieces, participated in exhibitions of different years and published in books, as well as little-known images, found during our research work with the archive. We hope to revive interest in the oeuvre by these authors and perpetuate their names in the history of art and photography".