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Earlier this week I met up with a new friend Jos to go to see a photo exhibition in Moscow’s old Red October Chocolate factory building called ”Icons”. After a light lunch we made our way to Red October and wandered into the wrong doors but this led us to see an unrenovated old area of the building, it had a fantastic stairwell, next time I hope to get some photos of the interior of this fascinating building. Back to the point, the exhibition covered people were essentially ‘celebrities’ in the Soviet Union from the years 1960-1980. So this concept, to my limited Western mind seems a little odd as the majority of Soviet ‘celebrities’ presented to the west seemed to be politicians and military figures, so the majority of the subjects were unfamiliar. The photos themselves though to me were mainly documentary-type portrait shots, all in black and white, and presented in a simple exhibhition hall, and further research on the exhibition showed that one of the photographers, Vladimir Musaelyan, was Soviet Leader, Leonid Brezhnev’s personal photographer for thirteen years.
I bought myself a book of the exhibition that shows the majority of the photos on display, I am looking forward to the portraiture parts of my photography degree, hopefully this book with its contrasting styles will help with that part of the degree. I have included a couple of shots of the inside of the exhibition rooms below, not a very photo-heavy post, but I figured it was worth mentioning as the exhibition was fascinating and definately worth a visit if you can get there before 23rd May 2010.
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