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| Alexander Slyusarev. Moscow 2008. Courtesy of the family |
Alexander Slyusarev is one of the few truly important independent postwas Soviet photographers. He took up photography in 1958 and was working in his mature style by the early 1960s. His work displays a kind of negative aesteticd that rejects the trite humanism of official Soviet art photography as well as the often-bombastic quality of the images in the Soviet press.
He was self-taught photographer as for a long time he worked as professional translator from Italian having a diploma of Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute Foreign Languages.
From 1974 to 1984 he created a series black and white minimalistic "squares" taken with a Rolleiflex camera, which made the photographer famous among fellow photographers and curators.
His photography is located in the many famous collections all around the world, including Museum of Modern Art, New York, Odense Museum of Photography, Denmark, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga.
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| Woman in the park. 1970s, Private Collection, Riga. |
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