Igor Mukhin
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, USSR), is a Soviet and Russian photographer.
, Igor worked in a project institute. From 1985 to 1986 he attended classes at the studio of prominent Moscow photographer Alexander Lapin. He later spent several years working with samizdat
rock
musician
s.
In 1987, he had his first personal exhibition at the Moscow State University
.
Since 1989, he has been working as an independent photographer.
Moukhin is known for his photographs of Soviet rock musicians of the perestroika
period, including Viktor Tsoi
, Boris Grebenshikov, Petr Mamonov, among others.
He worked on the following projects:
- «the Soviet monuments».
- «the Soviet bench».
- «Fragments of evident propaganda».
- «the Soviet children's playgrounds» and others.
- «Night Moscow».
- «Girls».
- Moscow in Winter: «Heavy breath of winter».
- «the Province. The Nizhniy Novgorod vacation»
Some of the photographs from these projects were shown at the Tretyakov gallery
and La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2007.
In the mid-1990s, he worked on documentary projects about Moscow and provincial Russia.
In 1996, he was a guest speaker at the international festival InterFoto
in Moscow.
In 1999, he received a grant
from the Paris Mayor’s office to work on a project titled “Lovers in Paris” sponsored by F.N.A.C. (Fonds national d'art contemporain) and the French Committee to commemorate the year 2000.
Igor Mukhin usually uses rangefinder cameras including the Leica M6
and black and white films.
His work has been published in many Russian magazines and in foreign editions such as the Rolling Stone
, GEO
, Elle
, Vogue
, Le Monde
, Libération
, Esquire
, and Time
among others.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, USSR), is a Soviet and Russian photographer.
Biography
After graduating from collegeCollege
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, Igor worked in a project institute. From 1985 to 1986 he attended classes at the studio of prominent Moscow photographer Alexander Lapin. He later spent several years working with samizdat
Samizdat
Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...
musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s.
In 1987, he had his first personal exhibition at the Moscow State University
Moscow State University
Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
.
Since 1989, he has been working as an independent photographer.
Moukhin is known for his photographs of Soviet rock musicians of the perestroika
Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
period, including Viktor Tsoi
Viktor Tsoi
Viktor Robertovich Tsoi ; 21 June 1962 – 15 August 1990) was a Soviet rock musician, leader of the band Kino.He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and has many devoted fans across the countries of the former Soviet Union even today...
, Boris Grebenshikov, Petr Mamonov, among others.
He worked on the following projects:
- «the Soviet monuments».
- «the Soviet bench».
- «Fragments of evident propaganda».
- «the Soviet children's playgrounds» and others.
- «Night Moscow».
- «Girls».
- Moscow in Winter: «Heavy breath of winter».
- «the Province. The Nizhniy Novgorod vacation»
Some of the photographs from these projects were shown at the Tretyakov gallery
Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...
and La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2007.
In the mid-1990s, he worked on documentary projects about Moscow and provincial Russia.
In 1996, he was a guest speaker at the international festival InterFoto
InterFoto
InterFoto was the largest festival of professional photography in Russia, the Baltic States and CIS countries from 1994 to 2004. It was founded by two American photojournalists, Washington Post photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Lucian Perkins and freelancer Bill Swersey and during the years...
in Moscow.
In 1999, he received a grant
Grant (money)
Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal...
from the Paris Mayor’s office to work on a project titled “Lovers in Paris” sponsored by F.N.A.C. (Fonds national d'art contemporain) and the French Committee to commemorate the year 2000.
Igor Mukhin usually uses rangefinder cameras including the Leica M6
Leica M6
The Leica M6 is a rangefinder camera manufactured by Leica from 1984 to 1998.The M6 combines the silhouette of the Leica M3 with a modern, off-the-shutter light meter with no moving parts and LED arrows in the viewfinder. Informally referred to as the M6 "Classic" to distinguish it from the "M6...
and black and white films.
His work has been published in many Russian magazines and in foreign editions such as the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
, GEO
GEO (magazine)
GEO is a family of educational monthly magazines similar to the National Geographic magazine. It is known for its profound reports, which are accompanied by opulent pictures.The first edition appeared in Germany in 1976...
, Elle
Elle (magazine)
Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Le Monde
Le Monde
Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...
, Libération
Libération
Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...
, Esquire
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is a men's magazine, published in the U.S. by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1932, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.-History:...
, and Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
among others.
Monographs
- 2005 Igor Moukhin, «Born in the SSSR», text by Ekaterina Degot and Steve Yates, Publisher: L. Gusev, Moscow
- 2004 «Igor Moukhin». Text by A. D. Coleman. Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA http://www.nearbycafe.com/artandphoto/cspeed/essays/moukhin.html
- 2004 Igor Moukhin «Wien Вена Vienna». Text by Peter Weiermair, Константин Бохоров. Вена, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
- 2000 «Igor Moukhine», Texte de Olga Sviblova, Carre Noir, Paris/Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
- 1998 Igor Moukhin «Avoir 20 ans a Moscou»'. Texte de G.Saffrais, Editions Alternatives, Paris ISBN 2862271705 http://www.bibliomonde.com/livre/avoir-ans-moscou-1500.html
Selected personal exhibitions
- 2008 «Igor Moukhin», Stockholm International Fairs, SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
- 2008 «Igor Moukhin», CM ART, Paris
- 2004 «I.Moukhin. Contemporary Russian Photography». The Camera Obskura Gallery, Denver, USA
- 2004 «I.Moukhin: Visions of Contemporary Russia». Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
- 2004 «Generation next». Auditorium parco della musica. Festival Russo, Rome
- 2003 «Contemporary Moscow Photography». Anahita Gallery, Santa Fe, USA http://www.anahitaphotoarchive.com/Home/Photographs/igor-moukhin
- 2003 «Wien — Moscow». Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
- 2003 «Moskauer Jugent im 3. Jahrtausent». Moskauer Tage in Berlin, KulturbrauereiKulturbrauereiThe Berlin Kulturbrauerei is a building complex. Originally built and operated as a brewery, its courtyards and unique architecture have been protected as a monument since 1974 and it is one of the few well-preserved examples of industrial architecture in Berlin dating from the end of the 19th...
, Berlin - 2002 «Moscou — Paris». Moscow House of PhotographyMoscow House of PhotographyMoscow House of Photography is a Russian museum, which maintains a large collection of old and contemporary Russian photographic masterpieces and also organizes festivals and large scale projects....
, Moscow, Russian MuseumRussian MuseumThe State Russian Museum is the largest depository of Russian fine art in St Petersburg....
(2003) - 2002 «Moscow». International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
- 2001 «Москва Light». Moscow
- 2000 «La jeunesse a Paris». (Mois de la photo a Paris 2000), Galerie Carre Noir, Paris.
- 1999 «Igor Moukhin». Galerie Carre Noir, Paris, France
- 1998 «Moscou la Jenne». Bibliothèque Elsa-Triolet, Pantin, France
- 1997 «Soviet Epoch: Benches and Monuments». Photohouse, Riga, Latvia
- 1996 «Life in the City». Latvian Museum of PhotographyLatvian Museum of PhotographyThe Latvian Museum of Photography is a photography museum in Riga, Latvia. The museum examines the evolution of photography in the world with a permanent exposition and exhibition and library and archive facilities which cover a floor space of 363 square meters...
, Riga, Latvia - 1995 «Vision of Russia». Naarden Fotofestival, Grote Kerk, Naarden, Netherlands
Group exhibitions
- 2010 «The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today». Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/originalcopy/ - 2010 «Photographie de la nouvelle Russie 1990-2010». Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris 2010 http://vid-1.rian.ru/ig/Russia-France/DPRussie.pdf
- 2007 «Sots Art. Political Art in Russia from 1972 to today». Tretyakov GalleryTretyakov GalleryThe State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection,...
Moscow, La Maison Rouge, Paris http://www.culturekiosque.com/travel/item12381.html - 2002 «Давай! Russian Art now». Postfuhramt, Berlin; travelling MAK, Wien http://www.moscowbooks.ru/book.asp?id=220187
- 2002 «Idea Photographic: After Modernism». Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/artists_mukhin.html
- 1999 «After the wall». Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Ludwig Museum, Budapest; National Galleries im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- 1998 «Photography from the collection». The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1997 «From the collection». Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris
- 1991 «Changing Reality». The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D. C