Maria Bavykina, Vladislav Efimov. Time for Immediate Photography

  • Year2025
  • LanguageRussian
  • BindingHardcover
  • PublisherGarage publishing program
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Immediate Photography was an informal group of photographic artists in the second half of the 1980s. Its members included Vladislav Efimov, Sergey Leontiev, Boris Mikhailov, Igor Mukhin, Ilya Piganov, Alexander Sliussarev, and Alexei Shulgin.

More than a mere chronicle of the collective, the book offers the reader a photo album, a historical narrative, a document, and a collection of personal memories in one volume.

The history of Immediate Photography is reconstructed by two authors. Group member Vladislav Efimov delves into recollections, making the context and the era emotional and sensory, filling the past with nuances that flash by like photographs in an album. Maria Bavykina views the past as an art object—one that holds mysteries and leaves room for interpretation.

Authors

Maria Bavykina (b. 1992) is an artist, independent curator, teacher, and researcher. She works with video, performance, and photography, exploring the dialogue between photography and cinema. She studied directing and screenwriting at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and contemporary art at Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). As a co-curator, she has organized exhibitions in museums and galleries including the Gallery on Peschannaya (Moscow), Pennlab Gallery (Moscow), Voznesensky Center (Moscow), Cube.Moscow, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts (Moscow), and the Museum of Industry and Art (Ivanovo), among others. She teaches at Rodchenko Art School.


Vladislav Efimov (b. 1964) is a photographer, artist, teacher, and member of the Immediate Photography group. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from Moscow Automotive Mechanical Institute and worked for several years as a successful designer at the ZIL automobile plant. He began practicing independent photography in the early 1980s and shifted from photography to installation in the early 1990s. An artist, curator, and photographer, he heads the Project Photography workshop at Rodchenko Art School (Moscow) and is an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics. He is a laureate of the Innovation Prize for contemporary art and a two-time winner of the Golden Section architecture award. Efimov’s works are in numerous private and museum collections in Russia and abroad. He lives and works in Moscow.

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