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Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

It's not my dog business. 1965. Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

It’s not my dog business. 1965. Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov (born September 4, 1937, Leningrad, USSR)

Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov
The author of this picture is one of the forefathers of the so-called street photography. He shot a simple life: in the Moscow courtyard, on the embankments of Leningrad, in the Summer Garden, in Minsk, Vologda and other places. Recognition and fame came to him with a photograph “It’s not my dog business.” At the international competition “Inter Press Photo” in 1966 he with this dog became a prize-winner of all spectator sympathies.
Born in 1937 in Leningrad, Vladimir Bogdanov didn’t plan to become a photographer. In 1955, being a student of the textile institute, he came to the photo club of the Palace of Culture of the Leningrad City Council. And ten years later he was already a professional photographer, having started working as a photographer in the youth newspaper “Smena” (1965). Then followed Leningradskaya Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Trud and, finally, The Literary Newspaper, where he worked for 23 years.

Summer garden. 1970s

Summer garden. 1970s. Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

Vladimir Bogdanov is a recognized master of portrait and genre photography. Working in various publications, he shot a lot of celebrities, domestic and foreign. Among them are legends such as Vladimir Vysotsky, Nonna Mordyukova, Bulat Okudzhava, Francis Coppola, Yuri Nikulin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who, by the way, really did not like to be photographed. Political and public figures of the “era of change”: Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin (series “Leaders”), and Andrei Sakharov. And from the other hand – just life, the moments, which talented photographer cought in the simplest black and white scenes. Meanwhile, there is something uncontrollably attracting in these photos, probably, the most important thing.

Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

1965

1965

A doll. 1976

A doll. 1976

Actor Viktor Pavlov, 1970s

Actor Viktor Pavlov, 1970s

Arch. 1970s

Arch. 1970s

At the window. 1980s

At the window. 1980s

Ballerinas

Ballerinas

Bikers. 1950s

Bikers. 1950s

Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. 1970s

Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. 1970s

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov. 1983

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov. 1983

Faina Ranevskaya. 1968

Faina Ranevskaya. 1968

Fishing. 1965

Fishing. 1965

From school. 1989

From school. 1989

Guys from Medvedkovo. Early 1990s

Guys from Medvedkovo. Early 1990s

In a cafe. 1970s

In a cafe. 1970s

Life is beautiful on Tverskoy. USSR. 1980s

Life is beautiful on Tverskaya street. USSR. 1980s

Lilya Brik. 1974

Lilya Brik. 1974

Mansi children. 1972 (Mansi - indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, Tyumen region)

Mansi children. 1972 (Mansi – indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, Tyumen region)

Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova. 1980s

Nikita Mikhalkov, Nonna Mordyukova. 1980s

Strastnoy Boulevard. White dress. Moscow, the RSFSR, the USSR. 1989

Strastnoy Boulevard. White dress. Moscow, the RSFSR, the USSR. 1989

Tovstonogov and Galina Volchek

Tovstonogov and Galina Volchek, 1970s

Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

Soviet photographer Vladimir Bogdanov

source: magazines Soviet photo, Soviet Union, Ogonyok