Andrey Andreevich Knyazev ( 1932 - 2003 ) - famous Soviet photographer , photo journalist .
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Biography
He collaborated with Literaturnaya Gazeta , Sovetskaya Kultura , Smena and Sovetsky screen magazines.
Work in the “Soviet screen” gave Andrei Knyazev the opportunity to cover the Moscow International Film Festivals. In the cinema, he is amazed by everything: he tries to repeat the cameraman’s techniques in photography, admires the direction, he wonders how the favorites of the public behave in everyday life. He makes wonderful portraits of artists of domestic and foreign cinema: Nikita Mikhalkov , Inna Churikova , Lyudmila Gurchenko , Sophia Loren , Federico Fellini , Marcello Mastroianni , Marina Vlady .
In 1966 - 1989 photojournalist of the newspaper " Moscow News ".
Andrey Knyazev is a master of genre photography. His photographs appeared without the slightest desire of the photographer to stage a moment in his life.
From the photos of Andrei Knyazev, time is easily read. Thick bangs, a miniskirt, a stroller, a cap, a gabardine coat of a young father - everything refers to the distant 1960s. Authorship in Andrei Knyazev photo frames is recognizable at first sight.
It does not leave the dream to express by means of photography the lightness and transparency of the “air flow” that the impressionist artists so skillfully conveyed. Knyazev confessed: "... impressionism remained unsurpassed for me ... from time to time I try in my work, in photography, to get closer to that unique air flow ...". He is experimenting a lot in this direction. In recent years, he worked as a free photo artist for various publications.
In 2004, the Photo Gallery named after the Lumiere brothers acquired the photo archive of Andrei Knyazev and today is the only gallery that exclusively represents the works of the master.
Participation in exhibitions
- "Seven-Year Plan in Action" - from 1959 to 1965.
- "Interpressphoto-60"
- "Interpressphoto-66"
- "Interpressphoto-77"
- “USSR: country and people in artistic photographs” - annual exhibitions held abroad from 1970 to 1976.
Literature
- “Photo 60-70” - Publication of the series “ Anthology of Russian Photography of the 20th Century ”. Moscow, 2007.