MOSCOW, 15 Apr. We continue the series of materials about a unique collection of digitized photo images from the repository, which contains more than three million frames. The earliest date back to the middle of the 19th century. Employees of the Visual Projects Service conduct scientific work to find reliable information for historical photographs of different years.
This time we will talk about works of graphic art created by Soviet photojournalists in the 60-70s of the twentieth century. Documentary evidence of that time is imbued with its spirit and atmosphere. Shots capturing moments of everyday life acquire special value over time — they become facts of history.
The works of APN correspondents Boris Kaufman, Alexei Varfolomeev and Boris Krishtul can be put on a par with the works of the legendary French photographer, the founder of reportage photography and street photography , co-founder of Magnum agency Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Girl with bread. Tbilisi, 1979. Boris Kaufman.
Boris Kaufman was born in 1938 in Baku, studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. From 1961, he worked for a decade and a half at the Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photojournalist. One of the first Soviet masters whose exhibition took place in the West (London, Great Britain, 1972). In 1973, Kaufman received the highest professional award — he took second place in the international competition World Press Photo. » data-crop-ratio=»0.98841139546113″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»593″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=» 1898″ decoding=»async» />
Hungry steppe in Uzbekistan. This is the name of vast waterless spaces, only in places suitable for nomadic life. Uzbekistan. 1966 Alexey Varfolomeev.
Decades separate us from the authors and subjects of the photographs, but they continue to speak to us in the language of photography, understandable on different continents and at different times.