Stop-Frame. Nostalgia
In the photo: Oleg Yankovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra and other. Unknown author. The last day of filming. 1984
In the photo: Andrei Gertsov, Polina Grigoryan, Katya Fedorova, Aliona Doletskaya, Anna Dyulgerova, Julia Sharova, Lana Chesnovitskaya, Ksenia Romanova, Simon Robins, Natalia Vodianova, Olga Dunina, Natalia Chernova, Victoria Morozovskaya, Masha Minaeva, Marina Syutaeva, Oksana Semiryaga, Irina Makhaneva, Irina Alexeeva, Natasha Morozova, Tanya Kurnosova, Dima Fast, Nelli Konstantinova, Natalia Oktyabrskaya, Natalia Luchaninova, Suriyana Volkova, Olga Sviblova, Sergei Tomash. Unknown author. Sex on the Red Square. 2010
In the photo: at the front - Ksenia Makhnenko (left) and Ksenia Ponomaryova (right). In the second row: Maxim Sokolov (left). Unknown author. Khoroshevsky elegy. 1991
In the Photo (top row): Kamil Chalaev, Garik Assa (Garik Gorilla), Katya Ryzhikova, Gor Chakhal, Evgeny Kalachev, Maria Persik (?), Andzej Zaharischev-Braush, Mashalarisa Borodina, Ivan Kochkarev, Igor Kechaev, Igor Aleinikov, Andrei Vishnevsky, Pavel Kaplevich. Middle row: Valery Syrovatkin, Nastya Mikhailovskaya (Sarochan), Ilya Medkov, Gleb Aleinikov. Bottom row: Tatiana Shcherbina, Boris Yukhananov, Valera Svetlov (far right). Unknown author. Boris Yukhananov’ thirtieth birthday. September 30, 1987
In the photo: Tatyana Bek, Vitaly Manuilov, Dmitry Tokonogov, Alexey Alekhin, Lev Rubinstein and Anton Krasovsky. Unknown author. Tanya. 1996
In the photo: Valeri Zolotukhin, Marina Policejmako, Boris Dyachenko, Gotlib Roninson, Tatiana Sidorenko, Viktor Shternberg, Viktor Shulyakovsky and the other on the stage in the scenery Valery Leventhal. Unknown author. The Cherry Orchard. 1986
In the photo: on the right Gidon Kremer (second), Philippe Hirschhorn (third), Voldemar Sturestep (fifth). Unknown author. Fragments of childhood. 1959
In the photo: Mikhail Prokhorov (on the right). Unknown author. Demob album. 1989
In the photo: Roman Viktyuk, Natalya Makarova, Hwang Hwang, Alla Kozhenkova, Erik Kurmangaliev, Sergei Makovetsky, Tatiana Sukhachova, Leonid Lyubvinsky, Lev Novikov, Asaf Faradzhev, Sergei Vinogradov, Irina Metlitskaya, Sergei Nikolaevich, etc. Valery Plotnikov. Affair with Butterfly. 1992
In the photo: Andrei Myagkov, Alexander Kalyagin, Igor Vasiliev, Irina Miroshnichenko, Oleg Yefremov, Nikolai Skorik, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Mikhail Roshchin, Pyotr Shcherbakov, Igor Zolotovitsky, Yelena Proklova, Oleg Borisov, etc. Valery Plotnikov. Comedy of disintegration. 1987
In the photo: Leonid Desyatnikov, Boris Messerer, Bella Akhmadulina, Arkady Ippolitov, Polina Osetinskaya, Dunya Smirnova, Alexander Timofeevsky, Irina Lyubarskaya, Sergei Dubrovsky, Vladimir Naparin, Irena Pastukhova, Andrei Samaduga. Unknown author. The photograph. 1991
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Curator: Sergey Nikolaevich
For the press
This photo project devoted to nostalgia is the continuation of a literary edition of SNOB magazine (7/8, 2014). From time to time SNOB poses global questions related to human existence and invites its authors to reflect on them. Such was the case with projects like ‘Everything About My Father’, ‘Everything About Eve’ or ‘Everything About My Home’. Professional writers joined this exchange, but also those who simply had something to say on the topic under review. In that sense nostalgia is a truly unlimited theme. For some it means happy childhood memories, for some a deep love experienced in their youth, and for others a yearning for ‘daydreams of our Homeland’. As the émigré poet Georgy Ivanov wrote in Paris in the early 1930s: ‘The years pass in a haze. Alternately one moment we breathe the musty air of freedom, the next the untrammelled chill of the gaol’.
Collective photographs from the archives of SNOB project participants provide an illustration of these very different texts. Some were taken by established maîtres like Valery Plotnikov and Andrei Bezukladnikov, but most are amateur shots undistinguished by any particular artistry. They are interesting for just one reason: as a precise record of a certain period and of who we once were. Moreover, I think the genre of the collective photograph dictates a specific state of consciousness for everyone who comes into focus. An excited closeness, necks stretched, uncomfortable poses — all this is more than compensated for by the sense of light-hearted conspiracy and collective brother- or sisterhood that lasts in real time for no more than a second, yet remains forever. Testimony from the participants adds amusing and touching details, and so our ‘Nostalgia’ acquires the format and tone of History in the widest sense.
We gaze at familiar faces, discover forgotten details. We understand that this is life as it was not long ago, yet a life that is gone forever. As an invocation for nostalgia we repeat from habit these lines from Pushkin: ‘The heart lives in tomorrow; The present is drear; All is fleeting, all passes by; All that passes will be dear’.
Sergei Nikolaevich,
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