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Original images vs. portraits on canvas: An artist's eye versus the camera lens

An exhibition titled 'An artist's model through the camera lens' introduces 45 portraits of the muses of Russian artists of the late 19th and early 20th century
Yelena Borisova-Musatova and an unknown woman, 1911 The State Tretyakov gallery
Yelena Borisova-Musatova and an unknown woman, 1911
© The State Tretyakov gallery

The exhibition titled 'An artist's model through the camera lens' opened  in the State Tretyakov Gallery as part of the 10th Moscow International Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography 2017.” It introduces 45 portraits of the muses of Russian artists of the late 19th and early 20th century. The audience will see the original photographs of women, who posed for famous Russian artists Ilya Repin, Ivan Kramskoy, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Victor Borisov-Musatov. The exhibition features both professional portraits made in a famous photo studio in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and amateur photographs created by the artists themselves. The project is part of the 10th Moscow Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography - 2017".