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Fashion and Style in Photography 2013
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February 20 - May 26
The eighth Moscow international festival "Fashion and Style in Photography 2013" takes place from February 20 to May 26. The festival is hosted by the best exhibition venues such as Manezh Exhibition Hall, Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Ermolaevsky per. The festival programme consists of more than 20 exhibitions featuring works by the Russian and foreign classics of photography. Among them "Mikhail Rozanov: The Best", "August Sander: Portrait. Landscape. Architecture", "Voici Paris. Photographic modernities, 1920-1950: Collection of Christian Bouqueret", "Valerie Belin: The Illusion of Life", "Karl Blossfeldt and Ekkehard Welkens: Dialogues about Nature", "Seydou Keïta: From Jean Pigozzi's Collection", "Dior Couture: Patrick Demarchelier", "Outumuro: Looks", "Martin Parr: Luxury", and others.
Selected Exhibitions
Moscow Multimedia Art Museum
February 21 - May 26
Voici Paris. Photographic modernities, 1920-1950: Collection of Christian Bouqueret (France)
 The Centre Pompidou dedicates an exhibition to one of the major acquisitions of the last few years: the Christian Bouqueret photography collection, comprising more than 6700 photographs, which entered the Centre Pompidou's collections in July 2011. Christian Bouqueret spent his entire life collecting art and devoted himself to acquiring the work of photographers who worked in Paris in the 1920's and 1930's, including unknown and famous photographers such as Man Ray, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Germaine Krull, François Kollar, Brassaï, Kertész, Laure Albin-Guillot, Emmanuel Sougez, René Jacques, Jean Moral and Raoul Ubac.
February 21 - April 07
August Sander: Portrait. Landscape. Architecture (Germany)
German portrait and documentary photographer August Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who was working for a mining company. With financial support from his uncle, he bought photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom. He spent his military service (1897-1899) as a photographer's assistant and the next years wandering across Germany. In 1901, he started working for a photo studio in Linz, Austria, eventually becoming a partner (1902), and then its sole proprietor (1904). The exhibition will include Sander's photographs from his famous series "People of the 20th Century". In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. The series is divided into seven sections: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (homeless persons, veterans, etc.). Courtesy Galerie Priska Pasquer Cologne.
February 14 - March 17
Karl Blossfeldt and Ekkehard Welkens: Dialogues about Nature (Germany)
Karl Blossfeldt is undoubtedly one of the most important representatives of the New Objectivity movement. For decades his work was dedicated to a single theme - photographing plants with a magnifying lens. This exhibition presents 70 works from "Urformen der Kunst" ("Archetypes of Art") - Blossfeldt's first published album, which brought him widespread fame in 1928. This was made possible thanks to Karl Nierendorf, who recognised the artistic value of Blossfeldt's photographs. "Urformen der Kunst" was highly acclaimed in England, France, Sweden and the USA. Due to the precision of the language of form and the systematic conception on which this is based, Blossfeldt's photographs still have considerable artistic merit. They allow us to observe closely and in detail the tiniest natural constituents. Their purity and abstraction exert a timeless charm. The drawings of Ekkehard Welkens are executed in the finest traditions of the old masters, transferring his discoveries from nature to paper with the aid of a pencil, transforming all the subtleties of the prototype, plane after plane, into the two-dimensionality of a sheet of paper. The subject is always depicted in original size, alone at the centre of a neutral background. Welkens shows us relics existing in other time zones and turns our attention to measures of time that are invisible in everyday life.
February 21 - March 17
Mikhail Rozanov: The Best (Russia)
 A well-known Moscow-based photographer Mikhail Rozanov's works bring associations with the ink calligraphy art and the old Chinese genre of "flowers and birds." Inner quietness, peace and contemplativeness are the qualities of Rozanov's art that are so rare in the great bulk of modern art "production." His works are not the "portraits" of dead natural objects but rather strict and ascetic abstractions, the emblems of their author's mental state. Still life is the most formal of classical genres and, as such, is cherished by the author who is inclined to estrangement, the expressly constructive composition and perfectly balanced image. Among art historians, still life is often considered as the best genre to "test" artistic innovations. Still life is quite unpopular nowadays but Rozanov is a conservator both literally and figuratively. It is the still life genre - entirely decorative and perfunctory at first sight - that he chooses to demonstrate the current perspective of contemporary art development.
February 27 - March 31
Valerie Belin: The Illusion of Life (France)
 Valérie Belin, born in 1964, lives and works in Paris. She has held numerous solo exhibitions across Europe, the US and Japan and her work is held in collections at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, the CCF Foundation for Photography, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, amongst others. Widely published, Belin won the Paris Photo prize in 1997, The CCF (HSBC) Foundation for Photography Prize in 2000 and was short-listed for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2004. Valérie Belin's photographs of banal items are coldly beautiful, confrontational and achieve an unsettling balance of being both abstract and representational. Each of the series are vastly different in subject matter but are joined by Valérie's signature style. At the Moscow exhibition "The Illusion of Life" there are Belin's photographs from her series "Black Eyed Susan", "Fruit Baskets", "Vintage Cars", "Ballroom Dancers", "Chips" and "Mannequins".
February 27 - May 05
Seydou Keita: From Jean Pigozzi's Collection (Mali - France)
The great African portraitist Seydou Keita's archive of over 10000 negatives was gradually brought to light in the early 1990s; Keita has since achieved international recognition. Inventive and highly modern, his emphasis on the essential components of portrait photography - light, subject, framing - firmly establishes Keita among the twentieth-century masters of the genre. "It's easy to take a photo, but what really made a difference was that I always knew how to find the right position, and I never was wrong. Their head slightly turned, a serious face, the position of the hands... I was capable of making someone look really good. The photos were always very good. That’s why I always say that it's a real art."
March 20 - April 4
Martin Parr: Luxury (Great Britain)
 Martin Parr is a British photographer known for his intimate photographs tinged with satirical humour, showing the society we live in. Parr is a member of the renowned Magnum Photos agency. He has published almost 50 books of photography and his work has been shown in 80 exhibitions around the world. The "Luxury" series of photographs shows the different ways people display their wealth. "Shot in various locations, from art fairs to horse racing, and in many countries, I have selected situations where people are comfortable showing off their wealth. Designer clothes, champagne and parties are all part of this repertoire," says Martin Parr. "As well as the more established wealth hot spots in Europe and America there are photographs from the emerging world, such as the Millionaire Fair in Moscow, the Dubai Art Fair and the Motor show in Beijing. Traditionally the portrayal of poverty has been the domain of the "concerned photographer", but I photograph wealth in the same spirit."
March 22 - April 21
Pierre Jamet: Retrospective. 1930-1970. Dina Vierny and Other Stories (France)
An exhibition by Pierre Jamet (1910-2000) will demonstrate his retrospective works from 1930 to 1970 and his photographs of Dina Vierny, the muse of 20th-century artists including, for example, sculptor and painter Aristide Maillol. From childhood Pierre Jamet had two passions - singing and photography. In 1924 at the age of 14 he was sent to the Scout Jamboree in Copenhagen to sing French popular songs. While there, he bought his first camera, an "ICA 6X6". From that moment on, he never stopped singing or taking photographs. In early 1937, Pierre Jamet became a member of the CLAJ (Comité Laïque des Auberges de Jeunesse), the secular youth hostelling association, a movement whose rise was closely linked to the coming to power of the Popular Front french government. Between 1937 and 1939, Pierre Jamet took numerous photographs of the hostels and the youth so happy to live this exciting period. In his later years Pierre Jamet spent more and more time in the house he had bought in Belle île en mer in 1946. This Breton island was, as early as 1929, the subject of numerous photographs. Pierre Jamet is associated with the Humanist Photography movement. Some of his pictures are amongst the most important of his time.
Manege Central Exhibition Hall
March 07 - April 03
Dior Couture: Patrick Demarchelier (France)
 This exhibition will display over one hundred iconic gowns from the entire era of Christian Dior haute couture, including dresses designed by Dior himself and those of his successors, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, and John Galliano. Each of these portraits were shot by legendary French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier and were included in his book which was released in December 2011 by Rizzoli. Patrick Demarchelier whose work is regularly featured in leading magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vanity Fair, and many others was also the official photographer of Princess Diana of Wales, the first non-Briton to become an official photographer for the Royal Family. Shot in various places, a movie studio in Beijing, Times Square in New York and, in Paris, in settings including a private chateau, the Opera Garnier, avenue Montaigne, and at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, the stunning gowns - vintage and contemporary - were taken on models including Natalia Vodianova, Gisele Bundchen, Karlie Kloss, actress Charlize Theron, and many others.
March 07 - April 03
Beauty in the 21st Century: Dream Women + Dream Men
 The exhibition collects the international elite of fashion photography and gives it an artistic-creative scope. Intimate, delicate moments or unusual, unsparing views - this is about much more than the reflection of society's ideal conceptions, it is about the "truth in beauty" and how it can be realised. And how it is hidden in the visage of the public, which forces the mania for skinniness and youth upon it. A compendium, which guides us into the future of perception. The project "Beauty in the 21st Century: Dream Women + Dream Men" shows the most beautiful women and men from various perspectives, strong, weak, sexy - modern men who reflect more than the social ideal, enabling something from the substance of their being to emerge. Artists: Camilla Akrans, Miles Aldridge, Tom Betterton, Jenny Cage, Walter Chin, Liz Collins, Michelangelo di Battista, Horst Diekgerdes, David Drebin, etc.
March 05 - April 14
Manuel Outumuro: Looks (Spain)
 Manuel Outumuro is one of Spain's most prestigious photographers, a pioneer and trendsetter in fashion photography. A great connoisseur of the history of photography, he reinterprets from a modern perspective and creates signature productions that amply illustrate the phenomenon of fashion photography in the last few decades. On a grand scale, the photographer relays exclusive designs meant for the elite, to the general public. His visual language is characterised by formal, avant-garde constructs of a fictitious reality for building perfect new worlds. His "Outumuro Looks: twenty years of fashion photography" collection is over 200 large format photos that relate fashion to graphic design, cinema, art history, architecture and other artistic disciplines through artist's uniquely creative vision. Outumuro's exhibition is an easy show to digest: beautiful clothes, beautiful bodies and faces.
March 05 - April 14
Stan Douglas (USA)
David Zwirner's gallery presents works by Infinity Award winner (2012) Stan Douglas who has created films, photographs and installations since the late 1980s. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, he appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, thoroughly researched projects. His awards also include the inaugural Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2007) and the Bell Award in Video Art (2008).
Ekaterina Cultural Fund
March 15 - May 12
Story of an Era: Photographs of the Princess Anna Maria Borghese (Italy)
In elegant photo-story of princess Anna Maria de Ferrari, the wife of Scipione Borghese, an autobiographical description of sensitive and refined Roman noblewoman intertwined with the history of Italy at that time making the image archive of the twentieth century replenished with a new original documental source. The photographs by Anna Maria Borghese seem to summarize in very succinct manner the way of photography development, from its inception until the modern style era. These works themselves belong to modern style by right, because of Anna Maria's open mindedness and curiosity and because of multiplicity of countries that she had visited in her travels-adventures together with her husband. The variety of Princess's visual interests, as well as variety of people and objects captured by her camera boggles the imagination. She became one of the first women which managed to take pictures almost on the front.
March 15 - May 12
Jim Lee: Arrested (UK)
"Arrested" is the first Russian retrospective of iconic British photographer and film director Jim Lee (b. 1945). He was a photographer for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Interview, Photo journals, The Sunday Times and The New York Times newspapers, as well as for Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Alexander McQueen Fashion Houses. The exhibition includes 38 black-and-white photographs created in 1960-1970s and in the beginning of 2000s. Critics call Jim Lee "English answer to Guy Bourdin". It is no coincidence that the title of the exhibition is "Cardiac Arrest" (in the English version "Arrested"). Jim Lee has survived clinical death three times after heart failure (eng. cardiac-arrest), and a number of other attacks on his health. These accidents became some kind of milestones, marking the stages of his life. Photographs by Jim Lee, who has amazingly fine feeling of those changes, reflected exactly the point of style genesis. He refuses to Studio shooting and photographs his models on the outside in the wild and in the not a very savory outskirts of London that you will never see on tourist postcards. Often it is shooting of paired models, filled with such vigor and sensuality that when looking at them just quickens the heartbeat. Images created by Jim Lee for the fashion industry, perhaps seems to be too passionate and hot versus cold and indifferent fashion items. This is a photo where you can see a metaphor of love, war, conflict, but there is such a perfect sense of style that they were adopted by the world of fashion.
March 15 - May 12
Tom Wood: Britain. 1973-2012 (UK)
 The exhibition by British photographer Tom Wood (b. 1951) covers some 40 years of his work and includes images from his most acclaimed series and albums - Men and Women, Looking for Love, Bus Odyssey, Photie Man and People. These photographs depict everyday street life in and around Liverpool in a style that can be defined as "loose, instinctive and dead-on." Wood studied in the art department of Leicester Polytechnic (from 1973 to 1976), but even then he was trying out different kinds of film for experimental movies. After turning to photography he often worked with both colour and black-and-white, buying cheap materials and printing in his downtown studios. Today you might think the images were beautifully faded, or processed by an Instagram filter. One of the photographer's biggest projects was created over a period of 20 years and had all the characteristics of a real-life urban epic - every Saturday he stood outside the Liverpool and Everton stadiums to take shots of football fans. Wood and his camera became such a regular sight in the city streets that he was dubbed the "photieman".
March 15 - May 12
Malick Sidibé: La Via En Rose (Mali)
The exhibition presents a selection of about fifty mostly unpublished photographs taken from 1960's to 1970's in the capital of Mali - Bamako. These images fully convey the atmosphere of the bustling life of Bamako of those years when the desire of universal unity and integration into world historical process was total. These images have made Sidibé world fame: the parties of 1960-th, the studio portraits and a selection of photos from his archives, telling us about the long and important period in the history of Mali. Malick Sidibé is considered as one of the most respected photographers of Africa. In 2007 he was awarded by the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for achievements in the arts - for the first time in the history of this Festival a photographer became the winner. In 2003 Sidibé was awarded by the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in Sweden, in 2008 by the award of the International Center of photography in New York, in 2009 by a premium Photo España-Baume Mercier & in Madrid, and in 2010 by World Press Photo Award (in the category "Arts and entertainment") in Amsterdam. Numerous publications and books released in Europe United States and Africa are devoted to the creativity of the photographer.
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