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Moscow. Lubianka. 1910s. Offprint // These photos from the exhibition "Primrose: Early Colour Photography In Russia" will be on display in the FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, till April, 3, 2013.
Pyotr Pavlov / Moscow House of Photography
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“In memory of my military service”. Saint Petersburg. Beginning of 1910s. Collodion, painting. // Colour became widespread in Russian photography at approximately the same time as in Europe — in the 1860s. This was dependent on the manual tinting of photographic prints with watercolour and oil paints.
V. Yankovsky / Moscow House of Photography
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Portrait of girl. 1860s. Salted paper, covered by albumen, painting. // People were eager to see their own image in colour, and moreover in a picturesque form. The colouring of early photographic shots could also hide imperfections in the prints, including those introduced on albumenised paper.
A. Nechayev / Moscow House of Photography
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Portrait of girl in Little Russia costume. Saint Petersburg. 1900s. Gelatine silver print, painting. // By the end of the 19th century, by the 1880s and 1890s, colour photography was extended to architectural, landscape and industrial subject matter.
Yelena Mrozovskaya / Moscow House of Photography
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Race. “Dynamo” Stadium. 1935. Artist’s gelatine silver print, gouache. // From the mid-1920s A. Rodchenko regenerated the forgotten technique of hand colouring his own photographs. His use of tinting profited from his experience with photomontage.
Alexander Rodchenko / Moscow House of Photography
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Red Army man. 1932. Threecoloured bromoil. // In 1932 general rules for socialist realism were published in the USSR, as the only creative method for all forms of art, including photographic.
Vasily Ulitin / Moscow House of Photography
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Portrait of Yury Rypalov. 1938–1939. Threecoloured bromoil. // Pictorialism was one of the most important tendencies of early 20th-century Russian photography, and Russian pictorialist photographers were awarded gold and silver medals at international exhibitions.
Vladislav Mikosha / Moscow House of Photography
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Meeting in the tundra. 1972. Colour print. // Until the mid-1970s, in the USSR negative film for printing colour photographs was a luxury only available to a few official photographers who worked for major Soviet publications.
Dmitry Baltermants / Moscow House of Photography
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Show-window. Beginning of 1970s. Color print. // Colour transparency film appeared on the Soviet mass market in the 1960s and 1970s. As opposed to colour negative film that requires a complicated and expensive development process for subsequent printing, colour slide film could be developed even in domestic surroundings.
Dmitry Baltermants / Moscow House of Photography
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Fruits. 1949. Colour print. // In those days even still life studies of fruit bore an ideological message, being photographed for cookery books in which the Soviet people could see produce that remained absent in a hungry postwar country, where the ration-card system of food distribution was still functioning.
Ivan Shagin / Moscow House of Photography
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He has turned her head. Beginning of 1960s. Colour print. // Soviet art had to reflect Soviet myths about the happiest people in the happiest country, not real life and real people.
Robert Diament / Moscow House of Photography
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Sea cadets. End of 1940s. Artist’s colour print. // This exhibition with the metaphorical title ’Primrose’ demonstrates the appearance and development of colour in Russian photography from the 1860s to 1970s, and at the same time reveals the history of Russia in photography.
Yakov Khalip / Moscow House of Photography
