Lyalya Mendybayevna Kuznetsova

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Lyalya Kuznetsova Mendybajewna born Ljalja Mendybajewna Chalitowa , ( Russian Ляля Мендыбаевна Кузнецова , maiden name Russian Ляля Мендыбаевна Халитова ; * 4. August 1946 in Uralsk ) is a Soviet - Russian engineer and photographer of Tatar origin.

Life

Kuznetsova began studying at the Kazan State Aviation Institute in 1966 . After graduating in 1972, she was employed as an engineer in the research institute Vakuummasch in Kazan. She married Vladimir Kuznetsov and had a daughter.

After the death of her husband in 1977 she began taking pictures . In 1978 she became a photographer at the Kazan State Art Museum. She took part in the meetings of photographers in Lithuania and was accepted into the Union of Photographers of Lithuania. 1980–1982 she worked for the newspaper Vechernaya Kazan and dealt with problems of modern fashion . She became a freelance photographer and lived on commissions from the Tatar House of Fashion.

Since the late 1970s, Kuznetsova photographed one of the last gypsy camps in the USSR in Turkmenistan . A little later she continued the Gypsy series in the steppes near Odessa to portray people who were denied their rights in society. Their role model was Henri Cartier-Bresson .

Since the mid-1980s, Kuznetsova's work has been exhibited and published in Europe and the United States , particularly at the Corcoran Gallery of Art . She took part in InterFoto 1996 in Moscow.

Prices

  • Leica Medal of Excellence from Mother Jones magazine (1997)
  • Grand Prix of the City of Paris

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis: Lyalya Kuznetsova (accessed on May 22, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c Пресс-релиз: Галерея “Меглинская” (Москва) представляют выставку фотографий Ляли Кузграфий Ляли Кузнецововой Кузнецовой on May 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Ляля Кузнецова: “Каждый фотограф делает автопортрет, независимо от темы съемки” (accessed May 22, 2020).
  4. ↑ a b c d Photographer.Ru: Ляля Кузнецова (accessed on May 22, 2020).
  5. ↑ Русский Репортёр: Ляля Кузнецова (accessed May 22, 2020).
  6. ^ Lyalya Kuznetsova: Russia's Gypsies: Their Present and History . BasisDruck , Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-86163-061-6 .
  7. ↑ Ljalja Kuznetsova: In the vastness of the steppes: photographs . Knesebeck Verlag , Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-89660-032-5 .
  8. ↑ Ljalja Kuznetsova: Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe . Aperture, 1998, ISBN 0-89381-682-5 .
  9. ↑ Ljalja Kuznetsova: Gypsies: Free Spirits of the Open Steppe . Thames & Hudson , London 1998, ISBN 978-0-500-54220-0 .
  10. ↑ D.Mrazkova & V. Remes: Another Russia . Thames & Hudson, London 1986.
  11. ^ Wiktor Misiano: The contemporary photography in the Soviet Union . Edition Stemmle, 1988.
  12. ^ Say Cheese !, Soviet Photography 1968-1988 . Editions du Comptoir de la Photographie, 1988.
  13. ↑ L. Bendavid-Val: Changing Reality. Recent Sowiet Photography . Starwood pub., 1991.
  14. ↑ Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine . Foundation CIRC, Amsterdam 1992.
  15. ↑ Evgeny Berezner, Irina Chmyreva, Natalia Tarasova, Wendy Watriss: Contemporary Russian Photography . FotoFest 2012 Biennial, Houston 2012.
  16. ^ Changing Focus - A Collection of Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Photography . Sotheby’s , London 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kuznetsova, Lyalia Mendybayevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кузнецова, Ляля Мендыбаевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Uralsk