Exhibitions

Loan exhibitions by Rosphoto

COURTYARDS OF ST.-PETERSBURG
Vladimir Antoshenkov (St.-Petersburg)

The exhibition was first displayed in the National Centre of Photography from 21 June to 16 July 2007.
Vladimir Antoshenkov is a well known St.-Petersburg photographer. He is a member of the Union of Art Photographers in Russia, with a background of many group and personal exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. Author of five photography books on St.-Petersburg.
Vladimir is the head of Urbanistics and Urban Environment Design chair at the St.-Petersburg Institute of Architecture and Construction. Lectures on architecture composition and analysis, history and latest developments in urban construction, runs a creative workshop. Antoshenkov has a Ph.D. in Architecture.
Vladmir's profession and his career in photography are inextricably intertwined. City and architecture are the main theme and essence of his work as photographer and architect. Vladimir is very attentive to architectural detail and style. Nevertheless, his images show that the artist is directed primarily at sensual rather than rational apprehension of his subject and aims to uncover its form, material and essence via photography.

The exhibition Courtyards of St.-Petersburg includes photographs that were published in Antoshenkov's latest book. The works date from 1974 to 2006.
Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: 15 000 Rub
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Quantity of photographs: 102 (with possible reduction of quantity)
Photographs are matted on passepartouts 70 х 80 cm
Size of photographs: 50 х 60 сm, digital printing, authorial copies.
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography. 

FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 2ND HALF OF XIX CENTURY
Digital copies of vintage prints from the collection of Material Culture History Institute at the Academy of Sciences

The vintage prints were first exhibited in the National Centre of Photography from 16 December 2006 to 20 January 2007, followed by a show of digital prints at Nizhny Novgorod State Art Musem from 20 July to 28 August 2007.

Although the selection of works was initially limited by the archive specifics, the resulting show is representative of the main directions of French mid-XIX century art photography and introduces to the audience some outstanding examples of classical photography.
The exhibition includes copies of photographs from the collections of Grand Dukes Konstantin Konstantinovich and Konstantin Nikolaevich, Shuvalov Earls, architect and academitian M.T.Preobrazhensky, archaeologist and art historian Y.I.Smirnov. Depicted in the photographs are mostly cityscapes and countryside views of France (primarily Paris), Asia Minor and Middle East.

Part of the images in the exhibition were commissioned by the Historical Monuments Commission of the French Government, founded in 1851. The aim of this endeavor that later became known as Heliographic Mission, was to create something like a photographic catalogue of the architectural assets of France. Initially thought to help evaluate the condition of historical monuments, the photographs are today perceived as unique works of art.

Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: 20 000 Rub
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Quantity of photographs: 65
Photographs are matted on passepartouts 50 х 60 cm (59 photographs) and 80 x 100 cm (6 photographs)
Digital printing
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography. The Centre shall also provide 20 catalogues of the exhibition.

BEAUTY IN EXILE
Russian beauties in Paris and Hollywood in 1910-1960

Exhibition was first shown at National Centre of Photography from 07 March to 07 April 2008.

The exhibition is the latest edition of the major project by Alexander Vassiliev, stage designer, fashion historian and writer.
Vassiliev's book Beauty in Exile published in 1998 immediately became a best seller and later in 2001 served as a base for the film shot by Culture TV channel. Alexander Vassiliev can be named, without exaggeration, an outstanding collector. His collection comprising innumerable dresses and accessories includes a large archive of photographs (approximately ten thousand items) indicative of the glory of Russian models and fashion houses in Europe and the USA after the 1917 Revolution.
The exhibition, although showing only just a small part of the collection, represents it in full measure.
The sitters are most refined and elegant beauties of their time, descending from eminent noble families. Many Russian women having settled in Paris, Berlin or New-York, worked as tailors, seamstresses or fashion models. Such was the beginning of the Russian fashion houses that used their owners' noble names for their titles.

Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: up to 100 photographs - 60 000 Rubles, 120 to 200 photographs - 90 000 Rubles.
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Photographs are digitally printed and matted on passepartouts 50 х 60 cm
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography.

Alexander Vassiliev website - www.vassiliev.com.ru

 HAPPY NEW YEAR
The favorite holiday on XX century photographs and postcards

Exhibition first displayed at National Centre of Photography from 20 December 2007 to 27 January 2008.

In putting together this exhibition, we tried to make a possibly profound research the sentimental theme of New Years' photography, from traditional images of fur tree and no less common winter landscapes, still lives with festive decorations, masquerade scenes, to works that seem quite paradoxical to the context of our common notion of the favorite holiday.
The diversity of styles, genres and structures miraculously retains the common sensation of the festival that can be expressed in the words "Happy New Year"! The phenomenon of this sensation common for people of different countries and generations has found expression in the endless chain of borrowings, as well as amusing and charming adaptations.

The exhibition features digital copies of photographs including those from family albums, photographic collages, as well as original postcards from pre-Revolutionary and Soviet times, those printed typographically or made by hand.

Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: 15 000 Rub
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Quantity of photographs: 100 incl. 60 digital copies of photographs, 40 postcards (phototypes)
Photographs are matted on passepartouts 50 х 60 cm
Digital printing, authorial copies.
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography.

BORIS MIKHALEVKIN
Retrospective

First shown at National Centre of Photography from 6 September to 8 October 2007.

Boris Mikhalevkin is an outstanding photographer personifying with his work the aesthetics of "the black and white photography", fascinating and bedazzling. His photographs have a very clear voice. He captures the life around him, his family and acquaintances. Without inventing anything, he creates his Wonderland. His photographs are like a family album with the only difference that it is created by a talented photographer with a vision.
The selection for this exhibition was made by the author himself. Some of the photographs are well known, have been published and exhibited, but there are also those that are exhibited for the first time.

Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: 15 000 Rub
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Quantity of photographs: 100
Photographs are matted on passepartouts 50 х 60 cm
Digital printing, authorial copies.
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography.

"FLOWERS/FIORI" 

Paolo Dell'Elce (Italy)

First shown at National Centre of Photography from 11 to 28 May 2007

Paolo Dell'Elce is the founder and artistic director of the Museum of Photography in Abruzzo district (Italy), the founder and director (1991-94) of Stimmung Edizioni edition house. As photographer and curator he took part in various photographic projects in Italy and abroad. His artworks can be found in the collections of the French National Library, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Brescia, Carrara Academy in Bergamo. Paolo is a researcher in the field of visual arts, teaches in Italy and internationally.

ENTHROPY
Sergei Sveshnikov

Exhibition was first displayed at Jam Hall cinema gallery (St.-Petersburg) from 16 to 30 July 2005.

Sergey Sveshnikov was born and now lives and works in St.Petersburg. He studied photography under Oleg Bakharev. While being employed at Leningrad Science Film Studio he took part in the creation of over twenty documentaries (under directors D.Delov, A.Sidelnikov, A.Karpushev, N.Makarov).
Sveshnikov is the author of around 15 personal exhibitions and participant of over 50 group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He currently teaches photography at the National Centre of Photography. His series "Enthropy" belongs to Rosfoto collection.

Exhibition loan terms:
Cost of loan: 30 000 Rub
Transportation from St.-Petersburg to customer and back to St.-Petersburg (or further to the place where exhibition is scheduled to be displayed next) is paid by customer.
Quantity of photographs: 30
Photographs are matted on passepartouts 50 х 60 cm
Black and white photographs, manual printing, authorial technique, graphically treated;
materials: photographic paper, color pencils, felt pens.
Necessary exhibition space: 120-150 sq.m.
Accompanying texts to exhibition and design layout of polygraphic materials (poster, leaflet) are provided by the National Centre of Photography.

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