Exhibition at the Städel Museum sheds light on modern photography s wide-ranging trends
Exhibition view New Ways of Seeing. The Photography of the 1920s and 30s. Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT
.- The Weimar Republic (19181933) was an era of great innovation in modern photography. There was a growing demand for press and advertising imagesand numerous photographers to cater to it. Their works also appeared in elaborate photo books they published on their own initiative. One catalyst for these developments was the advent of the 35mm camera in the 1920s, an invention permitting unprecedented freedom of movement. Unusual perspectives, steep-angled views from above and below, and close-ups of details testify to a new enthusiasm for photographic experimentation. This modern aesthetic came to be known as Neues Sehen (New Ways of Seeing), a catchword that can be understood as a call for a new visual approach on the part of the photographer and the viewer
Early years of Soviet collective farms in state-sanctioned PHOTOS Renowned Soviet photographers often had to bend reality to capture the ideal facade of complicated rural life in Soviet Russia.
In the late 1920s, the new Soviet government ruled that all private rural estates be united into what became known as collective farms. Collective farms, as opposed to private rural estates, were thought to be a necessary tool in fostering industrialization in what, at that time, was still a mostly agrarian state with a predominantly rural population.
The collectivization was implemented at the expense of the peasants’ natural self-organization and lifestyle. Millions suffered from repressions, hunger and poor labor conditions.
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Nailya Alexander Gallery opens an exhibition inspired by the photography book A Pageant of Youth
Boris Ignatovich, Youth, 1937. Vintage gelatin silver print. 16 1/2 x 21 15/16 in. (41.9 x 55.7 cm).
NEW YORK, NY
.-Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting A Pageant of Youth, an exhibition inspired by the photography book of the same name, designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko (18911956) and Varvara Stepanova (18941958) for the 1939 New York Worlds Fair. The book emphasizes the importance of physical culture among Soviet youth and showcases one of the extravagant annual All-Union Sports Parades held on Red Square in Moscow, as well as other athletic activities fashionable in the 1930s. Athleticism and physical health were promoted by the newly formed Soviet state in order to serve one of its main objectives: the creation of an entirely novel and advanced type of human being called The New Soviet Man who would be selfless, educated, and physically strong, while constantly strivin