![]() ![]() In addition, the installation features rare art books and journals: SSSR Na Stroike ( USSR in Construction), The Left Front of the Arts (LEF), Novyi LEF, and Pioner( Pioneer) from the Zimmerli’s archival collection. Natalia Tsekhomskaya’s photographs of Leningrad residents in the 1980s and 1990s.Photographs of daily life in Latvia by Zenta Dzividzinska and Māra Brašmane during the 1960s and 1970s and.Olga Ignatovich’s photographs of workers, athletes, and sporting events from the 1920s and 1930s.Shown as studies for monumental photomurals, she used the technique of photomontage to generate idealized scenes of agrarian life and material abundance. Valentina Kulagina explored a fantastical dimension in the series Designs for Pavilions of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition for this major Soviet event in 1939. The exhibition is divided into five thematic sections: workers and labor experimenting with the medium gender and the body identity and the self portraiture and fantasy. “Despite the Soviet Union’s official rhetoric of gender equality, women of both generations shared a range of personal and professional challenges in advancing their careers as photographers.”Ĭommunism Through the Lens spotlights the individual achievements and lasting innovations in the field of photography by 15 artists from the Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine: Māra Brašmane, Violeta Bubelyte, Zenta Dzividzinska, Y Fatayeva, Ludmila Fedorenko, Olga Ignatovich, Valentina Kulagina, Lialia Kuznetsova, Olga Lander, Veronika Laperie, Tatyana Liberman, Maria Snigerevskaya, Ina Sture, Ann Tenno, and Natalia Tsekhomskaya. “These works draw viewers into the worlds of everyday Soviet citizens and their daily triumphs and struggles, which, to an extent, are allegories of life under communism,” Garth said. A new generation of Soviet photographers, born in the 1940s and 1950s, pressed beyond the boundaries of Socialist Realism by creating nonconformist photography that rejected official norms. Beginning in the 1920s, women photographers became part of the burgeoning photojournalism profession, exhibiting and publishing their work. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the political and aesthetic stakes of artistic production. The full exhibition is scheduled to be on view at the Zimmerli during the fall of 2021, with additional details announced during the summer. An online exhibition debuts in the spring of 2021. The event is moderated by Julia Tulovsky, curator at the Zimmerli, and Jane Sharp, research curator at the Zimmerli and professor of art history at Rutgers.Įxploring themes of political art, documentary photography, and gender, C ommunism Through the Lens presents a historical perspective on everyday life in the Soviet Union with more than 130 objects, the majority of which have never been exhibited in the United States. Guest speakers include Alise Tifentale, Riga Stradins University, and Mark Svede, The Ohio State University. candidate in the Department of Art History at Rutgers, who organized the exhibition followed by a roundtable discussion and audience Q&A session. The program features an exhibition overview by Maria Garth, Dodge Fellow at the Zimmerli and Ph.D. Ludmila Fedorenko Russian (born 1961) Untitled, from the series “The Time When I Was Not Born,” 1993Toned silver bromide print on paper, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union ![]()
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