Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics:
Part 3 - Contemporary Photographers Exhibition 1
© Eugeny Pavlov
Eugeny Pavlov
Eugeny Pavlov (b. 1949) started his engagement in photography in late 1960's and was one of the founders of the Vremya group in 1971. (See exhibiitons 1 & 2 for Pavlov's 1970 – 1985 and 1985 - 2000 work).
His Home Life Book (2002) is a series of black-and-white images portraying an everyday artist’s being. Ranging from street photo to still life to portraits in genre his work is a visual documentation of the mundane, an existential view on life itself. The project was published as a photobook with Tatiana Pavlova’s comments in 2014 in Kharkiv.
The Second Heaven (2003) is a collaborative project of Eugeny Pavlov and a painter Vladimir Shaposhnikov. Collaboration with painters and graphic artists when coloring black-and-white images was not completely new on the Kharkiv art scene (take, for example, Igor Chursin’s 1990s’ Halomania). But actual painting over a photographic print (first tried in their 1996 The Common Field and 1998 Parnography) was an extreme, albeit logical development of the popular Kharkiv School manual coloring visual discourse.
Pavlov”s continued interest in the genre of still life singles him out within the Kharkiv School community. His paired still lifes of the 1990’s were black-and-white, his 2010 - 2015 series is in color, but they also verge on abstract and present objects that are far from traditional.
Portfolios
View Portfolio: Home Life Book 2002
View Portfolio: Stil Lifes 2010-15
View Portfolio: The Second Heaven (Pavlov and Shaposhnikov 2003)
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