Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Russian Pictorial Photography 1900-1930s
Alexander Grinberg Portrait of an Actress, 1920 © Moscow House of Photography, from the exhibition 'Russian Pictorial Photography', at Somerset House, London.
I saw this wonderful exhibition of early Russian photography on Sunday. It's so refreshing to see images from a different era and I particularly like the softness and romantic nature of these photographs. This movement and style of photography, popular for a while, became outlawed and repressed after the Russian Revolution as they were considered decadent, bourgeois and not to represent the new socialist way of life. In 1935 moral persecution of artists led to physical repressions. Under a ludicrous pretext of ‘dissemination of pornography’ Alexander Grinberg was sent to one of Stalin’s labour camps. It is only in the last decade or more that these images have been uncovered and are now celebrated.
Vassily Ulitin, Ships at Low Tide, 1926
Quiet Resistance: Russian Pictorial Photography 1900-1930s at Somerset House, a great cultural centre off the Strand, London WC1.
