Primrose. Early Colour Photography in Russia. 1860s鈥�1970s
On the eve of its 25th anniversary MAMM opens the new exhibition season with the exhibition 鈥楶rimrose. Early Colour Photography in Russia. 1860s鈥�1970s鈥�. For more than twenty years the museum has acquired images that can be attributed to early colour photography for a special collection in our archive. Very little of this material was preserved. Technologies were constantly improved, making production less expensive and less time-consuming, however, early colour was often fragile and short-lived. We showed works from this collection for the first time at the 鈥楶hotobiennale 2008鈥� in Moscow, then in 2013 at the FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam), and in 2014 at The Photographer鈥檚 Gallery in London. At the time the exhibition consisted of some 140 photos. Today the MAMM collection, which is constantly developing, contains about 800 works demonstrating the origin and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to 1970s.
This new exhibition includes 248 works and a slide show by Boris Mikhailov. MAMM researchers have worked long and hard to prepare texts on the authors of the images and the events reflected in them, as well as about the history of photographic techniques used at different stages of the development of colour in photography.
The 鈥楶rimrose鈥� exhibition shows how technologies that allow the images to be filled with colour appeared and evolved. The exhibition is also a brief summary of the history of Russian photography over a century (from Sergei Levitsky, Alexei Mazurin, Elena Mrozovskaya, Karl Bergamasco, Peter Vedenisov to Vasily Ulitin, Peter Klepikov, Alexander Grinberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Yakov Khalip, Georgy Petrusov, Vsevolod Tarasevich, Dmitry Baltermants, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Slyusarev, etc.). At the same time the exhibition allows us to trace how life changed in a country that was experiencing historical and socio-political disasters, and the diverse roles photography played during that period.
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On the eve of its 25th anniversary MAMM opens the new exhibition season with the exhibition 鈥楶rimrose. Early Colour Photography in Russia. 1860s鈥�1970s鈥�. For more than twenty years the museum has acquired images that can be attributed to early colour photography for a special collection in our archive. Very little of this material was preserved. Technologies were constantly improved, making production less expensive and less time-consuming, however, early colour was often fragile and short-lived. We showed works from this collection for the first time at the 鈥楶hotobiennale 2008鈥� in Moscow, then in 2013 at the FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam), and in 2014 at The Photographer鈥檚 Gallery in London. At the time the exhibition consisted of some 140 photos. Today the MAMM collection, which is constantly developing, contains about 800 works demonstrating the origin and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to 1970s.
This new exhibition includes 248 works and a slide show by Boris Mikhailov. MAMM researchers have worked long and hard to prepare texts on the authors of the images and the events reflected in them, as well as about the history of photographic techniques used at different stages of the development of colour in photography.
The 鈥楶rimrose鈥� exhibition shows how technologies that allow the images to be filled with colour appeared and evolved. The exhibition is also a brief summary of the history of Russian photography over a century (from Sergei Levitsky, Alexei Mazurin, Elena Mrozovskaya, Karl Bergamasco, Peter Vedenisov to Vasily Ulitin, Peter Klepikov, Alexander Grinberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Yakov Khalip, Georgy Petrusov, Vsevolod Tarasevich, Dmitry Baltermants, Boris Mikhailov, Alexander Slyusarev, etc.). At the same time the exhibition allows us to trace how life changed in a country that was experiencing historical and socio-political disasters, and the diverse roles photography played during that period.
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