Yuri Eremin

Yuri Eremin (Russian: ''Юрий Ерёмин''; 1881, Kazanskaya, Voyskoy Donskoy Oblast — 1948, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet artist and photographer, a representative of pictorialism.

Eremin studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the class of Apollinary Vasnetsov, attended drawing classes at the private Julian Academy in Paris, and after the October Revolution at the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow. In photography, Eremin emerged as a creative personality before the Revolution, but became widely known in the 1920s and 1930s as a master of architectural and landscape photography, as well as for his nude photographs. During this period, he was an active participant in national and international exhibitions and professional discussions. From the late 1920s, his work was repeatedly criticized, but he continued to teach at universities and in Moscow photographic circles, held important positions in the civil service, and published photographs in major Soviet publications.

Interest in Yuri Eremin's work continued in Soviet art history even after his death in 1948. In 1966, a monograph on the photographer's life and work was published, and in the 1970s and 1980s, a number of articles appeared in prestigious professional and socio-political publications. Interest in his work intensified at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, when personal exhibitions of Eremin's photographs were held in Paris and Moscow. Provided by Wikipedia