History of Russia: The exhibition of works by military photojournalists “Roads of War” in Saint-Petersburg

The State Museum and Exhibition center ROSPHOTO (Saint-Petersburg) from September 17, 2015 presents the exhibition of photographs of military photo journalists “Roads of War”.

The exhibition presents works of the classics of Russian photography - Emmanuel Evzirihin, Boris Kudoyarov, Ivan Shagin, Sergei Loskutov. You can also see pictures of the military photographers, whose work are not widely known - Jean Berland, Alexander Ditlov, Boris Pushkin, Seeds Kolonin, Yefim Kopyt and J. and J. Piasecki, Y. Tabarovsky whose names will be returned to the history of Russian photography. 

The exhibition “Roads of War” is a photo chronicle, which includes photos taken by war correspondents by the path traversed by the Red Army on the roads of the Soviet Union and Europe. From the walls of Moscow's streets and squares of Leningrad road of war heroes after shots to lead the viewer Bryansk and Pskov, in Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Poland and Germany.    

The focus of the exhibition - everyday military life with forced marches and halts, crossings and attacks, the tragedies and joys of parting short meetings. The photos do not have a poster of heroism and horror of war, but war is life, seen from the point of view of its nameless workers, represented by the continuous movement along the path of hardship, along the road to victory, and each to his fate.

The bulk of the photographs are original prints of the wartime, to be published in the press. They point to the different formats of copyright or editorial framing. Also the exposition includes original works of Ivan Shagin, Emmanuel Evzerihin printed by them in the post-war period, and modern prints made from the original negatives from the archive of the photojournalist Sergei Loskutov.