The Photographs of Ivan Shagin 1/3

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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2014 · Travel & Events

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Ретроспективная выставка советского фотографа
Иван Михайлович Шагин
(1904 - 1982) 

Часть 1
Фотографии 
1929- 1934 гг. 

A retrospective exhibition of Soviet photographer
Ivan Shagin
(1904 -1982)

Part 1
Photographs 
1929-1934


Ivan Shagin (1904-1982) began his photographic career as an amateur in 1919.
His first professional work was as a press photographer for the newspapers Nasha Zhizn  (Our Life) and Kooperative Zhizn (Co-op Life).
In 1933, Shagin worked for the  youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Throughout the 1930's, Shagin photographed in Soviet villages.
Shagin’s photographs of the Soviet Air force and Navy appeared in the journal USSR in Construction.
He worked up until the 1950s at Pravda and the Novosti press agency.

Music: Andante from Piano Concerto in F sharp minor by Scriabin
Played here by Solomon Cutler and the Philharmonia Orchestra

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