Photo Days. Exhibition - study the development of photography in Odessa, Odesa

Opening of the exhibition "Odessa. Photo Days "will be held April 3, 2015 at 17:00 in the Museum of Modern Art in Odessa.

On April 3, 1890 in Odessa, the first exhibition of photographs. The idea belonged to the Odessa Branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society. The exhibition was presented in the current Art Museum and consisted of several rooms with the latest technology, and photographic images of famous photographers from different cities and stran.Eta information was found in the newspaper "Evening Odessa" for the year 1991, in the archives of the library, while collecting materials about the development of photography in Odessa.

This study pictures c 1843 (the year of the emergence of photography in Odessa) to the present day, an attempt to analyze the main trends and tendencies in the development of the Odessa photos, the ability to visualize the parallels between historical events and their reflection on the photographic paper, the search for links between eras and generations.

Two words that can describe the whole exhibition - Intervention and Information. Information section of historical experience, where the focus is on not to the media and to the visual information that the picture is. Intervention as a method of demonstrating the impact of historical experience, mentality and geography on the development of modern photography.

The exposition is arranged in such a way as to preserve and showcase the chronology of the main stages in the development of photography Odessa, the main themes - identity, the city and the manipulation of the entrance hall, as a counterpoint to the entire exhibition - the intersection of the thematic lines.

Visual history of the portrait and the relationship of personality to your image; the role of family albums; transition from landscape photos of the city to the creation of commercial cards; analysis of photographic manipulation during the Soviet period; new media and, as a result - a photo twenty-first century.

The exhibition benefited History Museum of Odessa , the archives of the National Library. Gorky Museum of Modern Art in Odessa, copies of photographs and postcards from a private collection A.Drozdovskogo and original works by contemporary artists of Odessa.

"Odessa. Photo Days "- this is the first phase of the study, which will continue in the future and is open to suggestions and materials Odessa and photographers city.