21st-Century Russian Photographers - Igor Moukhin, Vitaly Nikolayenko, Serge Golovach, Mikhail Evstafiev, Richard Yagutilov, Boris Savelev (Paperback)

Chapters: Igor Moukhin, Vitaly Nikolayenko, Serge Golovach, Mikhail Evstafiev, Richard Yagutilov, Boris Savelev, Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Sergey Chilikov, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Anton Koslov Mayr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Igor Vladimirovich Moukhin (Russian: born 19 November 1961, Moscow, USSR), is a Soviet and Russian photographer. After graduating from college, Igor worked in a project institute. From 1985 to 1986 he attended classes at the studio of prominent Moscow photographer Alexander Lapin. He later spent several years working with samizdat rock musicians. In 1987, he had his first personal exhibition at the Moscow State University. Since 1989, he has been working as an independent photographer. Moukhin is known for his photographs of Soviet rock musicians of the perestroika period, including Viktor Tsoi, Boris Grebenshikov, Petr Mamonov, among others. He worked on the following projects: - -the Soviet monuments-. - -the Soviet bench-. - -Fragments of evident propaganda-. - -the Soviet children's playgrounds- and others. - -Night Moscow-. - -Girls-. - Moscow in Winter: -Heavy breath of winter-. - -the Province. The Nizhniy Novgorod vacation- Some of the photographs from these projects were shown at the Tretyakov gallery and La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2007. In the mid-1990s, he worked on documentary projects about Moscow and provincial Russia. In 1996, he was a guest speaker at the international festival InterFoto in Moscow. In 1999, he received a grant from the Paris Mayors office to work on a project titled Lovers in Paris sponsored by F.N.A.C. (Fonds national d'art contemporain) and the French Committee to commemorate the year 2000. Igor Mukhin usually uses rangefinder cameras including the Leica M6 and black and white film...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=23703079