MASTERPIECES OF SOVIET PHOTOGRAPHY
Private View: Please join us on Thursday 1 November 6.00 – 8.30 pm
Featuring rare works from the Borodulin Collection. Curated by Maya Katznelson and Ben Burdett.
Atlas Gallery is pleased to present Masterpieces of Soviet Photography, a selection of photographs from the collection of celebrated sports photographer Lev Borodulin, known for his artistic images of athletes, skaters and swimmers.
Masterpieces of Soviet Photography reflects Borodulin’s long-lasting quest to collect and preserve images from a time when art was restricted to serve a Soviet socialist agenda. The photographs Borodulin collected over decades now constitute one of the largest collections of Soviet photography in the world and include prints by the greatest masters working in the medium such as Arkady Shaikhet, Yakov Khalip, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Boris Ignatovich and many others.
The exhibition covers a wide range subjects – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated in a line at the 1945 Yalta (Crimea) Conference, a close-up portrait of astronaut Yuri Gagarin, and an austere 1930s morning exercise class.
For more information please email: info@atlasgallery.com
Exhibition Invitation
Private View: 1 November 6:00 – 7.30pm
Photo: EVGENIY KHALDEY, ‘Banner of Victory, Berlin, May 1945’
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Lilya Brik, 1924
Gelatin silver print
MAX ALPERT
Hunting with Golden Eagle, Kazakhstan, 1930s
Vintage gelatin silver print
LEV BORODULIN
Pyramid, Moscow, 1954
Vintage gelatin silver print
SEMYON FRIDLYAND
In GUM, Moscow, 1930
Gelatin silver print
SEMYON FRIDLYAND
Volzhanocka (Girl from the Volga region), 1930s
Gelatin silver print
MIKHAIL GRACHEV
Agriculture in War Years, Schoolgirls Help Collective Farms, 1941
Vintage gelatin silver print
SAMARY GURARY
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Yalta, 1945
Gelatin silver print
SAMARY GURARY
W. Churchill Visits Moscow, 1942
Vintage gelatin silver print
BORIS IGNATOVICH
Height, 1929
Gelatin silver print
BORIS IGNATOVICH
In Shower, 1935
Gelatin silver print
EVGENIY KHALDEY
Banner of Victory, Berlin, May 1945
Vintage gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
9th May, The Red Square, Moscow, 1945
Gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
Concert (Conservatory)
Vintage gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
On Guard, 1937, printed before 60s
Gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
Party and Government leaders go to the Red Square on 1st May, Red Square, Moscow, 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
Thurst (Drink), 1950
Vintage gelatin silver print
YAKOV KHALIP
Torpedo, The Baltic Fleet, 1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
ALEKSANDR KHLEBNIKOV
Still-life “Milk”, 1926
Gelatin silver print
MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
Outstanding miner of Donbass, Nikita Izotov, 1934, printed C. 1960
Gelatin silver print
MARK MARKOV-GRINBERG
Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1926, printed in 80s
Gelatin silver print
VLADISLAV MIKOSHA
Morning Exercise, 1937
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Balconies, 1925
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Diver
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Dynamo Sports Club
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Evgenia Lemberg with Photo Camera, 1934
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Fire Escape
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Girl with Leica, 1934,
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Mayakovsky
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
On the Balcony, 1928
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Osip Brik, 1924
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Pioneer Girl, 1930
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Portrait of Mother, 1924
Gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
Early gelatin silver print
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
Vadim Kovigin
Early gelatin silver print
YAKOV RYUMKIN
For Communication with Space
Vintage gelatin silver print
YAKOV RYUMKIN
Germany, Berlin, May, 1945
Gelatin silver print
YAKOV RYUMKIN
In Moscow Sky, 1951
Vintage gelatin silver print
NIKOLAY SVISCHOV-PAOLA
Dancer, Moscow, 1920
Gelatin silver print
NIKOLAY SVISCHOV-PAOLA
Model with a ball, Moscow, 1920s
Gelatin silver print
IVAN SHAGIN
Sports Parade, Red Square, Moscow, 1932
Gelatin silver print
BORIS IGNATOVICH
Youth, 1937
Vintage gelatin silver print
IGOR SNEGIREV
Yuri Gagarin, April, 1961
Vintage gelatin silver print