page_title: The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography
section_title: Exhibition programme
hierarchical_section_title: The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography / Exhibition programme
caption_attribution_description: English: Premiere exhibition "Icons of the 1960-80's"
context_page_description: The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography is a private exhibition organization located in the former chocolate factory and acting art cluster Red October in Moscow.
  Since its foundation in 2010, the center aims to explore and promote Russian and foreign photography, support emerging Russian artists and explore beyond the medium. A private collection of Natalia and Eduard Litvinsky laid the foundation for the center's collection.
  Works from the Center's collection were shown at the Fotofest 2012 Biennal, triennial Bergen Assembly in 2013, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, museum and exhibition association Moscow Manege, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
  The center's exhibitions were shown at the State Russian Museum and Erarta in St-Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk museum center, Cherepovets museum association, Kazan city hall, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, and Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.
context_section_description: For the past 19 years the gallery has amassed a vast collection of prints featuring chef d’oeuvres by renowned Soviet and the World famous artists: Alexander Rodchenko, Antanas Sutkus, Yakov Khalip, Vladimir Lagrange, Arnold Newman, Wynn Bullock, Ruth Orkin, Elliott Erwitt, Steve Schapiro, Guy Bourdin, Vivian Maier, Sabine Weiss, Harry Benson, Sheila Metzner, Miles Aldridge.
  The center's exhibition programme aims to explore and present photography to a wider audience. The program has been built around the center’s collection and collaborations with archives, contemporary photographers, private collectors, and photography associations.
  Exhibition programme is based on research activities focused on studying and interpretation of the Russian photography of the 20th century. Group exhibitions tracing the history of Russian photography from the perspective of genres (100 Years of Russian and Soviet History in Faces, PROzavod, The Moscow Stories. Twentieth century (1 and 2)) and cultural aspects (Soviet Photo, The Icons of the 1960s -1980s, The Icons of the 1990s, Time of the Little Bells) aim to put Russian photography in the context of world art history.
  The center puts emphasis on studying Russian photography from the 1950s to recent days. The center was the first to reintroduce reportage and club photography of the Thaw in its seminal exhibition Soviet photography of the 1960-1970s (2010). Collaboration with Lithuanian photographers and the Photography Art Society of Lithuania resulted in the project Classics of Lithuanian photography that included exhibitions The Phenomenon of the Lithuanian photography school (2010), Genius of the place (2014), Romualdas Požerskis]'s retrospective exhibition Large scale, Antanas Sutkus' solo exhibition Nostalgia for bare feet (2016).
caption: The opening of the exhibition Icons of the 1960-80's
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