Multi-media complex of Contemporary Art (Moscow House of Photography).

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In July in Moscow after reconstruction of the building should open multimedia complex topical Arts (Moscow House of Photography). Its founder and director Olga Sviblova said Milena Orlova, why should we need to print photos, what is the relationship between the construction of the frame and globalism and what exercises are good for photography.
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   Q: President Medvedev carried away a photograph. I suspect that this is thanks to you and your home photos.

A: No liability for interest Dmitry Medvedev photo I do not feel it. In our country the picture is always very popular. The quantity of photo shop that existed in pre-revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, there were more than in all of Europe. The photo, which was invented in France, we fell in love especially. It was the craze, from peasants to the imperial family.

Q: Is it for the peasants it was not expensive? It also was a very laborious process.

O: Of course, expensive and time consuming. But in any small town there was always photography. Photographed. I do not know why. That is, I have an explanation, but very speculative. Russia had a premonition that the form in which it was at that moment, it will disappear, sink like Atlantis. And really wanted something to leave. In the thirties, a few pictures. And in 1955-1957, after Stalin's death, suddenly appeared from somewhere a lot of amateur photographers. It appeared Club Innovator ", organized by Alexander Khlebnikov, a disciple of Alexander Danilovich Greenberg. Khlebnikov, founded a new three-dimensional direction Pictorialism, founded the so-called scientific photography and was the most non-Soviet photographer with his still-life. He is one of the first in the Soviet Union began to remove advertisements made by western standards. Fotolyubitelstvo covered the entire country. In my opinion, people in this way escape from the boredom. My grandfather Lev Borisovich Sviblo, who spent seven years in the camps, was rehabilitated after Stalin's death. And when he was rehabilitated, he was given a camera "Smena", namely, the golden triangle. And he took the whole family. All the time. From 1953 until his death in 1980, he kept shooting, he lived it.

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Q: This is something psychoanalytic?

About: It's better and more efficiently. I've never heard of that man went to a shrink and it extended his life. And what good photographers live long - a statistical fact. I was at the exhibitions devoted devyanostopyatiletiyu Victor Rukovicha and Mark Greenberg. Greenberg, lived to 97, Rukovich - up to 96 years. Recently I was leafing through the catalog "Innovator", which exists to this day, there is an average age well beyond 80. And the average life expectancy in Russia - 56 years. So the picture is very useful for health, more useful than the SPA.

Q: Now photography is easier and cheaper, you can not print, do not need to show the film. It seems that with digital technology to take a bad quality picture is impossible. In Moscow House of Photography there are schools named after Alexander Rodchenko. What did you learn there?

A: Previously, it was necessary to first learn to control technology. There is, of course, a second question, although each cell requires its own approach, and it should be properly applied. For example, when you take off your mobile phone, it is for a close, intimate distance, and get shot, which you will not get another camera. The man who comes into the picture, should minimally know the laws of perspective construction, history of art. Even he must realize how the camera obscura, people came to photography. We must understand that such a light, because light - this is important, with which the photographer works. On any camera has the lens, although I always repeat and repeat, that he should be named something else - subjects. Incidentally, the first Soviet textbooks on photography began to emerge in the early thirties. There technique is given to 30%, all the rest - what to shoot and how to shoot. There is an explanation that everyone should smile - it was written in the textbook.

Q: In pre-revolutionary photo no one smiled. Smile - a Soviet invention? Such a program of social optimism?

A: American. Socialist realism has come to us from America. Now seize the moment - it is 30 per cent success. Index - choose from the footage. Today many people this time, there is, and wait "until tomorrow". In this new "divaysy and media appear every day, computers, disks, flash drives ... As for digital printing, it is unknown how long she will live. A print on photo paper lived 150 years, as well as on the film. The world now is concerned about conservation. Half of the problems concerned with preserving human, invents the pressure chamber and other tricks to slow metabolic processes, and the second is trying to preserve history. And come up with some incredible things, for example, in Rio de Janeiro in a private Photocenter have huge restoration workshops, cold room, removed from America - this is some kind of spacecraft. While these technologies have existed for ten years, use them only a few points - is the transfer of emulsion film on the carrier, which does not deteriorate. The film can not be saved, because the cellulose layer is decomposed, if it more than fifty years.

Q: Restorers pictures work much the same way as restorers of paintings, which have learned to duplicate the layer of paint on the new canvas?

A: Yes, absolutely so. This is a very laborious and costly. Others are trying to crawl. But carriers also change very quickly. I made a film on Super VHS 25 years ago, but now with him not do anything, nothing to watch.

Q: What is the need to print?

About: Print, print, and print. But first pick. If garbage is stored for a long time, you're never in it can not tell, and even the curators did not help. I want to share a terrible premonition: with the advent of digital techniques and the advent of photography "for all" we begin to lose the history. 150 years had the opportunity to document this story. But today everything clicked one and the same: sunrise /sunset.

Q: But the tourist photos - is also a genre.

A: I'm for any photo: a window of the bus, train, most importantly, that it was something, some sort of message across. For example, the Japanese picture, which is now greatly increased in price, was made as a tourist product. The Japanese have shown that we should sell the place. By the way, thanks Medvedev discussed the possibility of lifting the ban on shooting on Red Square.

Q: Was the same demonstration, flashmob photographers leading media. They came with cameras on the Red Square, lined up to the Mausoleum face, and all have a symbolic image in protest.

A: In the same in Japan in the eighties of the XIX century to anyone anywhere can not be removed. Photographers bought a license for the species, such as Fuji. Sometimes obtained masterpieces.

Q: Do you has watched thousands of photos. You can make some generalizations, indicating that picture now of our life, is there now any laws?

A: Today there are three or four paradigms. First: psevdoobektivistskaya German school, which is tightly articulates a piece of space with a clear horizon. Face, almost like a passport, a huge size, see every pore and pimple. Second: Impression - bruises, drug addicts are not in focus, different emotional state frontier, psevdolyubitelskaya aesthetics. Third: the ironic line. She is very strong, evident already in the mid-nineties, but now has become all-pervasive trend. Of course, the situation in photography is closely linked to ideological situation in the world. We went into a zero, not seeing no prospect of seeing nothing in the future. The fall of the Berlin Wall - is a historic event, on the one hand, the remarkable, but on the other - devastating. This is a tragedy of XX century - collapsed all social mify.Net mental picture of the future. In the art of photography in recent years a lot of pictures, which are built on suspense, about the feeling when the whole world seems dangerous. The second current trend - a patchwork vision, when the world sees parts, pieces, when cut out something, some piece of something that is caught on the fly, casually. This does not necessarily mean the absence of structure frame. But it also reflects a lack of structure behavior and thinking, lack of plans for the future. And it becomes a world trend. Globalization is no longer giving a feeling and understanding that are my ancestors and this is my land and I am responsible to the ancestors and children. And in Russia, destroying first the whole story and begin to create a new history, we do not understand why you live.

Q: How can I do?

A: That's why I studied the history of photography. In our museum, open from 1997, is the program "History of Russia in Photographs" and the program "History of Russian Photography". Unfortunately, the history of our country is not the story, which is unequivocally proud of. It is certainly different. Her need to know to analyze, because without this it is impossible to build a new life, the future. If we will only be proud of, we'll keep all the repeat attack on the same rake and walk in circles. I do not approve of nostalgia, which today is under the Soviet regime. Personally I do not want them back in time.
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1.Olga Sviblova