The exhibition of well know German photographer Barbara Klemm takes place at ROSPHOTO within the official program of the German Week in St.-Petersburg.

Most of the photographs on display were made for Frankfurter Allgemeime Zeitung which Barbara Klemm has collaborated with for a long time. These images are valuable not only for their certain artistic quality, but also for their historical significance. Possessing the talents most important for a press photographer, to be in the right place at the right time, and to catch the moment that later becomes the icon of an epoch, Klemm illustrates w...

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ROSPHOTO introduces to audience the work of Franco Fontana, one of the most outstanding masters of contemporary art photography in Italy. The retrospective exhibition embraces photographs from the period of 1970-2007, from the author's own collection.

Fontana's style was shaped in the late 1960s under the influence of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. In that his teachers were his older conpemporaries, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ed Reinhardt. Fontana's work with its focus on form and colour was quite different from the classical black-and-white art photography that was ...

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ARCTIC HYSTERIA. CONTEMPORARY ART FROM FINLAND

Applying cultural clichés as a catalyst, the exhibition focuses on stereotypes, which has given cultural meaning to the specificities of a given region, Finland. Literally speaking Finland does not belong to the Arctic in a geographic sense, but the Finns are – as are, say, the Russians, the French and the English – believed to have specific national characteristics. A cliché often repeated, when discussing Finnish people, is their supposedly close connection with nature.

In fact, the hu...

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Rosphoto présente The Face, exposition à propos de l'évolution du portrait dans l'art photographique contemporain. L'évènement concentre un panel de travaux de 50 photographes provenant de 20 pays. Les travaux de jeunes artistes peu connus du public de St Pétersbourg se retrouvent aux côtés de photographes renommés tel que l'américain Laurence Gartel, un des pionniers de l'art digital, le sud-africain d'origine américaine Roger Ballen, le coréen Atta Kim, le "Chinois Mapplethorpe", Al...

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Le Musée d'Etat ROSPHOTO, et le Centre d'Exposition et Centre pour la Recherche et l'Archivage de la Photographie (CRAF), en coordination avec l'Institut de la Culture Italienne à St-Pétersbourg, présentent l'exposition Photography et Neoralism en Italie, 1945 - 1965. L'exposition est à placer dans le programme officiel de l'Année de la Langue et Culture Italienne en Russie.

Le néoréalisme est un art italien qui émergea initialement dans la littérature et le cinéma, pour se r&eac...

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