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Heir to the vanguard. Azerbaijan diary
Exhibition November 18, 2019 − March 29, 2020
Lumiere Brothers Photography Center and Heydar Aliyev Center present an exhibition“Heir to the Vanguard. Azerbaijan diary ".
The exhibition presents more than 100 of the best works of the classic of Soviet photography Jacob Khalip, as well as the archive of the Khalipov family.
In addition to becoming the classics of domestic photography of copyright prints, a series of works by the author in Azerbaijan will be shown for the first time within the exhibition. The exposition is built around six main blocks. The “Photo avant-garde experience” block will present photographs of Jacob Khalip included in the golden fund of Soviet photography. In this section, Khalip’s bold experiments, made together with his colleague and mentor Alexander Rodchenko, also for the magazine “USSR at a Construction Site” (1930s). The professional maturity of the photographer fell on turning events in Russian history of the 20th century. The exposition will include Khalip’s most important reports from the expedition to rescue Papanin heroes from the Arctic North Pole-1 station; reports of the period of the Great Patriotic War, which Khalip passed with the poet Konstantin Simonov; post-war reporting from the Soviet Union and abroad for leading magazines. In addition to reportage, the exposition will include early and late advertising shootings for the Intourist agency. A separate section will be a series of reports by Jacob Khalip from Azerbaijan (1930s and 1949-1950), which will be shown in full for the first time at the Heydar Aliyev Center.
Source: siteHeydar Aliyev Center.
The exhibition presents more than 100 of the best works of the classic of Soviet photography Jacob Khalip, as well as the archive of the Khalipov family.
In addition to becoming the classics of domestic photography of copyright prints, a series of works by the author in Azerbaijan will be shown for the first time within the exhibition. The exposition is built around six main blocks. The “Photo avant-garde experience” block will present photographs of Jacob Khalip included in the golden fund of Soviet photography. In this section, Khalip’s bold experiments, made together with his colleague and mentor Alexander Rodchenko, also for the magazine “USSR at a Construction Site” (1930s). The professional maturity of the photographer fell on turning events in Russian history of the 20th century. The exposition will include Khalip’s most important reports from the expedition to rescue Papanin heroes from the Arctic North Pole-1 station; reports of the period of the Great Patriotic War, which Khalip passed with the poet Konstantin Simonov; post-war reporting from the Soviet Union and abroad for leading magazines. In addition to reportage, the exposition will include early and late advertising shootings for the Intourist agency. A separate section will be a series of reports by Jacob Khalip from Azerbaijan (1930s and 1949-1950), which will be shown in full for the first time at the Heydar Aliyev Center.
Source: siteHeydar Aliyev Center.
