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The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Non-childish Games. From the Sretenka series (1995)
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center in Moscow presents the “Among Friends” anniversary exhibition of Vladimir Bogdanov, renowned photographer and one of the founders of the Russian street photography.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Leningrad. Late Flowers (1965)
The exhibition features over 100 photographs Bogdanov has created over the last fifty years. His style is kind and honest, smart and funny. His photos are seemingly incidental, profound and touching.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
The dolly (1976)
Vladimir Bogdanov is considered one of the progenitors of the so-called street photography. Wherever he was, he photographed the ordinary life: in a courtyard of Moscow, at quays in Leningrad, in the Summer Garden, in Minsk, Vologda.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the Blok Festival (1972)
The exposition includes portraits of famous writers, poets, artists, filmmakers and musicians, such “legends” as Lilya Brik, Dmitry Shostakovich, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Mstislav Rostropovich.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Chopin in the Workers’ Club (1971)
Bogdanov is intuitively living by the freedom we all can be envious of. He has never been constrained by the routine, schemes or other requirements of the time, systems, bosses or market.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
The recognition and fame came to the photographer with his photo “It is not my doggy business” (1964). Bogdanov and this dog won the Audience Choice Award at the InterPressFoto-66 international competition.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Another one spring (1965)
The photographer spent the first half of his life in St. Petersburg, and the other half in Moscow. And he has spent more than 50 years for the Photography.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Fishing
In 1955, Bogdanov joined a photo club in Leningrad; 10 years later he began working as a news photographer of the Smena youth newspaper.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
Businessman of 1990s
Then he worked for Leningradskaya Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Sovietskaya Rossiya, Trud and – finally – the Literary Gazette, the publication he has stayed with for almost a quarter of a century. This representative of the Leningrad intelligentsia was lucky enough to get into the hotbed of democracy and liberalism by chance. That was the only publication where Vladimir Bogdanov could exist as a photographer.
The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center/Vladimir Bogdanov
VIP (2001)
This exhibition is part of the Photography Center’s ongoing project “Anthology of Russian Photography of the 20th Century. The 60s and 70s Photos”. The Center has already held solo exhibitions of V. Lagrange, Y. Abramochkin, I. Gnevashev, A. Abaza and others.
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