History and culture: The exhibition “Primrose. Early color in Russian Photography” in Samara

The Museum of Art Nouveau (the branch of the P. V. Alabin Samara Regional History) hosts the opening of the exhibition "Primrose. Early color in Russian Photography" from the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum.

The exhibition brings together more than a hundred colored photographic works by Russian artists of the late XIX - early XX centuries. It demonstrates the appearance and color development in Russian photography in 1860-1970s and is also the history of Russian photography. On the example of the classics, as well as unknown artists can be traced back how life has changed during century in the country that has experienced the historical and socio-political catastrophe, and what role during this period a photograph played.

Since the 1860s, photographic prints were hand-painted with watercolors and oil paints. Coloring allowed hiding the flaws of prints, including those that are beginning to be made on albumin paper. Since the mid-1920s in the Soviet Union was received a huge distribution montage. It allows connecting the documentary accuracy of the photos and the new Soviet myths. Montage takes the color adopted and becomes an ideological "visual weapons". 

The exhibition at the Museum of Art Nouveau shows the art of photography, which are widely used in the era of the late XIX - early XX, developed over the centuries. Colorized prerevolutionary photos in the exhibition, is a document era, its technical and aesthetic sides.

The exhibition runs until 10 June 2016.