Gallery classic pictures

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In Moscow, opened a new gallery. Gallery of classic photography. At a press conference, the organizers have identified the gallery, as an independent museum and exhibition space. The creators - a group of Moscow lovers photo. The idea of ​​the gallery came about a year ago: found a room, renovated, acquired a collection of photographs of leading American photographers and presented to the public.
Organisers claim that the gallery is a non-profit, and not designed as a business project.

In contrast to existing photos institutions (MDF and various photo galleries) that have a commercial component, and specializes in current trends in the photographic art, the Gallery is positioned more as a nonprofit, scientific and museum structures of academic orientation.
Press release

Organizers say they have started work on pure enthusiasm, love of photography, and going to popularize classical photography. In their mind - it is a photograph printed by hand, as the figure and the film went their separate ways. The curators of the gallery will exhibit works by Russian photographers (despite the fact that the first exhibition devoted to American photography), working in the technique of hand printing, as the early 20 th century and contemporary. But there is a contradiction, and it sounded at a news conference. There are many talented landscape photographers who work with both film and with a digit. That they will not be considered classic? Art director and curator of the exhibition said that, of course, they do not renounce their numbers, but more attention will be given to the photographs in the manual technique of printing. There were also disputes about the title picture. That in their understanding of classical photography? Title shaped. The gallery will deal with classical landscapes, portraits and genre photography. Postmodernism Olga Sviblova them the least interesting, so they put it.

The gallery is a photo lab, and special equipment for various forms of hand printing. Laboratories will be leased, so that amateurs and professionals can use it and print (each a) "a masterpiece". In addition, the gallery will hold contests photographs printed by hand. The prize for the best shot in the technique of platinum-palladium print - 500 thousand dollars in engineering gidrotipii - one million dollars. In this way, the organizers are trying to generate interest from photographers.

Palladium prints - black and white photo printing process, based on the sensitivity of oxalate of iron (III). Platinum print version.
Platinum print (English platinum print or platinotype) - the process of monochrome printing, based on the sensitivity of oxalate of iron (III).
The process was invented by William Willis in 1873. Due to the unavailability and high cost of the relevant papers, photographers experimented with paper based on palladium and a mixture of palladium and platinum. Platinum paper is still used to this day, with breaks only to world war.
Wikipedia

Gidrotipiya (from hydro ... and Greek. Týpos - imprint), the photographic method of producing color images using water-soluble dyes. The essence of the method reduces to a three-color subtractive printing colored gelatin reliefs (matrices).
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At a press conference Natalia Udartseva (Journalist, Director of the School of Visual Arts) is not ashamed to ask a question that troubled many: "Which means A gallery, and it will exist if positioned itself as a nonprofit organization?" Answer: "On the Money private investors interested in promoting classical Russian photography. " Further exhibitions are going to organize in cooperation with museums, both Russian and foreign. The opening even been read (and appended to the press materials), a letter from the Ministry of Culture, which encourages the participation of private investors in the creation of the gallery:

«The fact that the gallery is open by private investors, evidenced by the revival of the best traditions of Russian philanthropy and serves as an excellent example of the business community».

Interestingly there was a moment of expert activity Gallery, which was announced in a press release. The curators of the gallery are ready to help with their knowledge, will guide the buyer in choosing pictures, such as auctions.

Grand opening of the gallery realized the well-known landscape photographers, 94-year-old Vadim Gippenreiter: scissors, cut the film.

Gallery opens an exhibition of American landscape photography: Ansel Adams and his followers. Landscapes of North America, taken with the 40-ies of the last century to the early 2000's, captured on film and printed by the authors in person, without the use of digital technology.

Photos:
1 - Gallery on the waterfront Savvinskaya http://www.classic-gallery.ru/
2 - Exposure
3 - (left to right) Marc Cobert curator, art director Jaroslav Amelin, an art historian Eugenia
4 - (with microphone) Natalia Udartseva
5 - panormany picture halls (provided by the gallery)
6 - stretched film - grand opening ribbon
7 - (left), photographer Vadim Gippenreiter, (right), head of the gallery opening remarks
8 - Guests
9 - photographers on the other side of the ribbon >
10 - Vadim Gippenreiter

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1 - Jeff Nixon (Jeff Nixon, 1945 ), Moonrise , Carmel Valley, silver - gelatin print , edition 1 /30
2 - Jeff Nixon , Garrapata Beach Clouds , 2 /30
3 - Jody Forster (Jody Forster, r.1948 ), Mese Prieta Storm, New Mexico 2007
4 - John Wimberly (John Wimberly, 1945 ) Carmel Valley from Hall's Ridge 1993
5 - John Sexton (John Sexton, 1953 ) Merced River and Forest, Yosemite Park , California 1983
6 - Ansel Adams (Ansel Easton Adams, 1902 - 1984 ) Storm , Yosemite Park , 1945
7 - his signature
8 - Bob Kolbrener (Bob Kolbrener, 1949 ) 09.09.1999#3 , 1999 , 43/50
9 - Clyde Butcher (Clyde Butcher 1942 ) Rock Island Prairie 2 , 1987 , 10/50
10 - Clyde Butcher Little Butternut Key 4 , 2001, 3 /25

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These photos provided gallery, signatures in the names of pictures.

First three photos by Alan Ross (Alan Ross, P. 1948), assistant Ansel Adams, who later became a talented fotogarfom-landscape painter, a follower of the Adams School.

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On the first floor of the gallery opened an exhibition of Russian landscape photographers , " the White Sea . Summer . "

1 - Alexander Belkov , White Sea , 2008, printed on Durst Lambada
2 - Samat Gilmetdinov , Layered Beach , Fr. Chernyshov , White Sea , 2007 , hand- printed with the optical film
3 - Samat Gilmetdinov , Blue Stone , Fr. Utichye , White Sea , 2007
4 - Samat Gilmetdinov , Keret River , White Sea , 2010
5 - Samat Gilmetdinov , Red Mountain Ash, M. Tolstik , White Sea , 2010 , printed by Christopher Burket , USA , cibachrome
6 - Vadim Gippenreiter , beautiful rocks of Karelia , 1973