თვალსაზრისი / Point of View. Thirty four years after

თბილისი / Tbilisi: 2019.

New Book.

Item #26363

Paperback. 70 pp.

ინგლისურ ენაზე
In Englis.
Format: 29 x 29 cm


The anthology of photos from the legendary Georgian photographic collective.
In 1985, Yuri Mechitov, together with his associates, felt Perestroyka's fresh air and founded a brand new photo club Tvalsazrisi (the point of view). The ideologist of the group - graphic painter Mark Polyakov once explained that "the members of Tvalsazrisi are those who possess an acute individualism and are unified by a faith and love of photography and a desire to see the true beauty of the world and not a prettified side of it" Tvalsazrisi group members came from a multitude of occupational and academic disciplines. They included mining engineer Yuri Mechitov; engineer Giorgi Sagareli; photographer of the Traumatology Institute Sergo Belousov; chemist Guram Tsibakhashvili; physicist Boris Shaverdyan; lawyer and police officer Mirian Kiladze, researcher Gia Javelidze; mathematicians David Sulakvelidze, Gia Bazgadze, and Gia Tagviashvili, professional musician Jano Demetrashvili and philosopher Gia Ckhatarashvili. The club's slogan was making photography the "avant-guard of modern art." Tvalsazrisi exhibition debut came on June I8, 1985 and commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II. The exhibition included 69 photographs taken of war veterans on the 9th of May 1985 (Victory Day). The second exhibition was held in the summer of the same year and featured club member Gia Javelidze's work, which was dedicated to Tbilisi-related themes. In September of 1985, another personal exhibition consisting of collection of 40 photos was held at the House of Journalists. The exhibition was titled School Years and featured the work of Giorgi Tsagareli.
A second group-exhibition was opened in December of 1985. The exhibition was called Contemporary Georgian Portrait and featured up to 70 large-scale portraits of people from various social groups. In this exhibition, the pictures of both notorious and completely unknown people were exhibited side-by-side as one collection. Because this approach was quite new, some older colleagues regarded the exhibition as "anti-Soviet" or even "anti-Georgian". Fortunately the scandal was settled and the exhibition went on successfully as planned. Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, hosted the exhibition in April of 1986. The trip to this small Baltic country was very significant for Tvalsazrisi, as Lithuania in those times was regarded as the avant-guard of Soviet photography.

Cover is slightly deformed. Otherwise good.

Price: $29.00