What is PROzavod? It stands for a major exhibition of The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography that came out of the idea to show the best soviet industrial photography and has turned into a genuine research on the evolution of the image of factory and worker in Russia between avant-garde 1920s and present day.
© F.Grinberg - Atommash, 1974
PROzavod is an industrial story told by the medium of photography, collage and cinema. It is a kind of media archeology in the visual field. There is an avid interest toward industrial aesthetics all over the world which appears in various disciplinary researches (sociology, design, urban studies) and in art practices at the exhibition halls. Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs of the industrial architecture in Europe have long become classical; David Lynch&rsq...
There’s a special place reserved for Vladimir Antoschenkov in the world of Saint-Petersburg photography, for he is a true architectural photographer.
Vladimir Antoschenkov was born in 1933 in Leningrad. In 1957 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering with an academic degree in architecture. In the mid 1970’s he took a great interest in photography. From that moment on these two creative spheres have been deeply intertwined in artist’s life, complementing each other and forming his unique style.
© Vladimir Antoshenkov
Antoschenkov’s photographs are short stories about urban life where each single object is animated. Architecture that dominates here is inseparably linked with i...