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Boris
Savelev
Boris Savelev, born Ukraine,
1948, moved to Moscow in 1966, graduate of Institute of Aeronautics,
joined Moscow photo club Novator in 1970, full time photographer
since 1982, numerous exhibitions worldwide, one of the best known
photographers working in Russia today. Savelev’s "decisive
moment" is about light, not people. His work is really about
form.
Selected Exhibitions
1978 -One-man Show, Soviet Photo
Gallery, Moscow, USSR
1979 -One-man Show, Museum of Photography,
Kaunas, USSR
1981 -One-man Show, Museum of Photography,
Siauliai, USSR
1983 -One-man Show, Photography
House, Halle, GDR
1986 -Museum of Fine Arts, Oxford,
UK 1987 -"City Light", One-man Show,
Goldsmith Gallery, London, UK -Valokuva
Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1988 -"Contemporary Soviet Photography,
Museum for Foto Kunst, Odense, Denmark
"Say Cheese!", Comptoir de la Photographie,
Paris, France;
Portfolio Gallery, London, UK;
Museum of Cinema Moscow, USSR;
Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego,
USA;
Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, USA
Burden Gallery, New York, USA
1989 "What is Photography?"
(150th Anniversary of Photography), National Museum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Tennessee University, USA
"Changing Reality", Corcoran
Gallery, Washington, USA
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, USA
Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, USA
Huntsville Museum, USA
1992 -Museum of Fine Arts, New
Mexico, USA
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
Worcester Art Museum, USA
Crocker Art Museum, USA
1992 -1993 - One-man Show, State
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1993 -Bass Museum of Art, USA
"Uber die, Groben, St6dte', NIBK-
Akademie-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Presentation of Photographic Collections
Museum, ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia
Bibliography
In the Museums of the Ukraine,
Kiev, 1984
D. Mrazkova and V. Remez, Another
Russia, Thames and Hudson, London 1986
Ukrainian Art, Mistetstvo,
Kiev, 1987
Aperture, Photostroika, New
Soviet Photography, New York, 1989
Secret City, Photographs from
the USSR, Boris Savelev, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988
Tenely Eskola & Hannu Eerikainnen,
Toisinnakijat/Uusi valokuva neuvostolutossa, SN-Kirjat, Helsinki,
1988
Finland World and I, Washington,
1990
Leah Bendavid-Val, Changing
Reality.
Recent Soviet Photography,
Starwood Publishers, Washington, 1991
Uber die groben Stadte (Catalog),
NGBK, Berlin, 1993
Art of Contemporary Photography,
Central House of the Arts, Moscow, 1994
Contemporary Photographers,
London/Detroit, 1994
Hotshoe Magazine, "Boris Savelev,
A Portfolio by Russia’s Best Photographer", Jan/Feb 1999
Collections
(partial)
Corcoran Galley, Washington, DC,
USA
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New
York, USA
DG Bank Frankfurt
Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico,
USA
Museum of Photography, Moscow,
Russia
"Navigator Foundation",
Boston, USA
Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, Germany
State Museum of Art, Kalingrad,
Russia
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
Russia
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg,
Russia
Staatsgallerie, Stuttgart, Germany
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