MOSCOW, July 5The exhibition «The Origins of Soviet Photography. 1920–1930s» from the collection of the Lumiere Galleries, which included works by Yakov Khalip, Emmanuel Evzerikhin and Mikhail Prekhner, opened at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center as part of the Hidden Perspective photography festival, reported the press service of the museum.
«The exhibition project brings together famous and little-known shots of the classics of photo reporting: Arkady Shaikhet, Yakov Khalip, Mark Markov-Grinberg, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Mikhail Prekhner, Naum Granovsky. The exhibition consists of six monographic sections revealing the work of each photographer. In total, the exhibition includes more than 200 unique photographs,» the press service said. 
The exhibition is dedicated to the first decades of the history of Soviet photography — a period of bold experiments, when innovative solutions in the field of composition, camera angles, framing, and photo collage became the basis of a new visual language that met the entire range of propaganda tasks of the Soviet state. At this time, reportage photography was rapidly developing — photojournalists became the main voice of change.
The exhibition consists of six sections, revealing the work of each photographer through series and photo essays — the leading genre form of Soviet photojournalism in the mid-1930s. The footage, which has become textbook, is dedicated to striking historical events from the life of the country (the meeting of the Chelyuskinites in the lens of Mark Markov-Grinberg, the rescue of the Papanin heroes from the Arctic station «North Pole — 1» in the works of Yakov Khalip), the life of the city and the village (Arkady Shaikhet), rural economy and production (Mark Markov-Grinberg), the changing image of Moscow (Naum Granovsky, Mikhail Prekhner) and the everyday life of the younger generation (Emmanuel Evzerikhin). 
The exhibition also features famous portraits-posters that embody the collective image of the Soviet man: «Komsomolets at the helm of a paper-making machine» (1929) by Arkady Shaikhet, «The Notable Miner Nikita Izotov» (1934) and «The Cook» (1930) by Mark Markov-Grinberg. The exhibition allows us to trace the formation of the individual styles of each author, their creative development and searches, and to evaluate the contribution of Soviet reporters to the creation of a new visual statement at the intersection of ideological and artistic experimentation.
The exhibition will be open to the public from July 5 to September 29.
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