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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya and the Moscow Center of Visual Culture Béton have collaborated on a joint exhibition project that focuses on military photographs from 1941 to 1945. The exhibition will be open from April 17 at 16:00 in the Main Building of the Erzya Museum of Fine Arts (61 Kommunisticheskaya Street).
The project features photographs by more than 20 war correspondents: Semyon Alperin, Dmitry Baltermants, Grigory Vail, Anatoly Garanin, Robert Diament, Leonid Dorensky, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Boris Kosarev, Sergey Korshunov, Vladislav Mikosha, Boris Sheinin, Mark Redkin, Franz Semyannikov, Vsevolod Tarasevich, Mikhail Trakhman, David Trakhtenberg, Pavel Troshkin, Alexander Ustinov, Evgeny Khaldey, Yakov Khalip, Dmitry Chernov, as well as unknown authors.
Each of them was distinguished by their courage, firm belief in victory, and selflessness. They volunteered to go to the front and created a photographic record of the country under fire on the battlefield. The military photography of the Great Patriotic War is not just a reportage, but a cultural symbol of the time, showing the cost of victory in the most brutal war in human history.
A separate section of the exhibition is dedicated to the works of the photo artist Alexander Zhitomirsky, which are made using the technique of photo montage. During the war, they were so powerful and effective as a propaganda weapon against fascism that German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels listed the author as his third personal enemy. The photo montages were printed on the front of leaflets that were dropped from the air in millions of copies to German positions. On the back of each leaflet, there was a text in German stating that the author was willing to surrender to the Red Army.
The exhibition will be an important event in the series of events dedicated to the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland and the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The project will make a significant contribution to preserving historical memory, fostering patriotism and moral values among the younger generation, strengthening national identity and intergenerational connections, reevaluating historical heritage, and expressing gratitude to the defenders of the Motherland throughout history. The exhibition will also include meetings with participants of the Special Military Operation who are currently defending the sovereignty and borders of our country.
The exhibition features 73 photographs (gelatin silver prints) from the collection of the Béton Center of Visual Culture, including a 2024 print from the author’s negative by Alexander Zhitomirsky.
«You can’t capture war from a distance; you can only capture it up close», wrote Konstantin Simonov about the work of frontline photojournalists.
The exhibition is curated by T.P. Vedyakova, a research fellow.
The main building of the S. D. Erzya Museum of Russian Art
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya and the Moscow Center of Visual Culture Béton have collaborated on a joint exhibition project that focuses on military photographs from 1941 to 1945. The exhibition will be open from April 17 at 16:00 in the Main Building of the Erzya Museum of Fine Arts (61 Kommunisticheskaya Street).
The project features photographs by more than 20 war correspondents: Semyon Alperin, Dmitry Baltermants, Grigory Vail, Anatoly Garanin, Robert Diament, Leonid Dorensky, Emmanuel Evzerikhin, Boris Kosarev, Sergey Korshunov, Vladislav Mikosha, Boris Sheinin, Mark Redkin, Franz Semyannikov, Vsevolod Tarasevich, Mikhail Trakhman, David Trakhtenberg, Pavel Troshkin, Alexander Ustinov, Evgeny Khaldey, Yakov Khalip, Dmitry Chernov, as well as unknown authors.
Each of them was distinguished by their courage, firm belief in victory, and selflessness. They volunteered to go to the front and created a photographic record of the country under fire on the battlefield. The military photography of the Great Patriotic War is not just a reportage, but a cultural symbol of the time, showing the cost of victory in the most brutal war in human history.
A separate section of the exhibition is dedicated to the works of the photo artist Alexander Zhitomirsky, which are made using the technique of photo montage. During the war, they were so powerful and effective as a propaganda weapon against fascism that German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels listed the author as his third personal enemy. The photo montages were printed on the front of leaflets that were dropped from the air in millions of copies to German positions. On the back of each leaflet, there was a text in German stating that the author was willing to surrender to the Red Army.
The exhibition will be an important event in the series of events dedicated to the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland and the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The project will make a significant contribution to preserving historical memory, fostering patriotism and moral values among the younger generation, strengthening national identity and intergenerational connections, reevaluating historical heritage, and expressing gratitude to the defenders of the Motherland throughout history. The exhibition will also include meetings with participants of the Special Military Operation who are currently defending the sovereignty and borders of our country.
The exhibition features 73 photographs (gelatin silver prints) from the collection of the Béton Center of Visual Culture, including a 2024 print from the author’s negative by Alexander Zhitomirsky.
«You can’t capture war from a distance; you can only capture it up close», wrote Konstantin Simonov about the work of frontline photojournalists.
The exhibition is curated by T.P. Vedyakova, a research fellow.
The main building of the S. D. Erzya Museum of Russian Art
