History and culture: The photo exhibition “XX century is around me. Photographs from the TASS archive” in Moscow

In the Center of Photography of Lumiere Brothers (Moscow) opened the exhibition "XX century is around me. Photographs from the TASS archive". The exhibition marks the 110th anniversary of the TASS and represents 80 reportage photographs since the early to mid-70s of the XX century.

The earliest photographs are dated 1909-1920 years. They depict Leo Tolstoy, Grigory Rasputin, the Tsarevich Alexei and his "uncle" K. G. Nagorny during a meeting of Emperor Nicholas II in Odessa.

Many images of the exhibition add new touches to creative portraits of famous photographers of TASS. On one of the post-war works of Basil Egorov (1957) is Marshal Georgy Zhukov on the elephant during his visit to India. Camera lens of Valery Gendy-Rote caught Sophia Loren in the courtroom of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1965), and Basil Turbin - Yuri Gagarin visiting Mikhail Sholokhov in Veshenskaia station (1967).

At different times in the TASS worked outstanding masters of photography. Visitors of the Center of Lumiere brothers can get acquainted with the work of local photographers whose work is included in the golden fund of the Russian photojournalism. Information on the exhibition stands is posted in essays about people, skills and work which ensured TASS worldwide fame and recognition.

Much part of the photo exhibition was prepared with the assistance of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive, which stores files of the Photo chronicles of TASS.