Photographic portrait

FACES. THE MODERN RUSSIAN PORTRAIT

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Magazine issue: 
#4 2005 (09)

Modern culture - and modern art, In particular - has encompassed the term "re-actualization”, which refers to cases when a phenomenon or genre is taken out of the archive and presented to the cultural community in a new light, with new meanings and a new functional orientation.

FACES. THE MODERN RUSSIAN PORTRAIT

 

-Oleg KULIK. Lisa and Quilty. 2004
Oleg KULIK. Lisa and Quilty. 2004
From the series “The Fears of White Man”. Black and white photo

Sergei Tretyakov: "In Memory of Mutual Service"

Tamara Kaftanova

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EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATIONS
Magazine issue: 
#4 2008 (21)

2009 will mark the 175th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov. He was born on January 19 1834 (January 31, by the old calendar), the second child in a Zamoskvorechye District merchant’s family. Sergei Tretyakov was the younger brother of the founder of the Russian National Art Gallery, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. He was his elder brother’s close friend, a reliable partner, and assistant. Sergei Tretyakov was widely known in Moscow as a public figure and art collector. His fine, noble face is captured in photographic portraits, many of which are kept in the department of manuscripts of the Tretyakov Gallery.

Sergei Tretyakov: "In Memory of Mutual Service"
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