Work Sherstennikova is a portrait of the era, consisting of thousands of individuals, landscapes, and just frozen in the frame of historical events.
Lev Sherstennikov was born in 1938 in Ufa. Photography was carried away in elementary school. He studied at the Leningrad Institute of cinema engineers, received the diploma of the engineer, but the specialty has not worked a single day. Already as a student he believed that “to be there without a camera is so pointless that it is better not to attend at all.”
His first pictures Leo Tolstoy published in “Soviet photo”, later filmed for “News” then “Literary newspaper” and other publications, and in 1963 began working at the magazine “Ogonek”, cooperation with which lasted more than half a century.
In his photographs imprinted politicians, actors, Directors, dancers, writers, academics and other celebrities of the Soviet era. Here are some of them:
The Acadia Raikin.
Arkady Raikin during a speech.
Mikhail Ulyanov.
Academician Dmitry Likhachev at home.
Dmitry Likhachev.
Academician Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner.
The mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak’s daughter Ksenia and wife Lyudmila Narusova ride the bus.
Anatoly Sobchak’s daughter Ksenia, 1989.
Galina Ulanova and Lyudmila Semenyaka.
George Zhzhenov in the Botkin hospital. The photograph on the passport, 1989.
Boris Yeltsin, 1989.
Defense Minister Ustinov and General Secretary Brezhnev.
Andrey Kolmogorov.
Yegor Gaidar.
Yuri Bogatyrev, 1979.
Lyudmila Gurchenko is ready to shoot.
Maris Liepa.
M. Liepa. Rehearsal, 1978.
N. Pavlova. Nutcracker, 1973.
N. Pavlova and Gordeev, 1973.
Eldar Ryazanov and Gennady Khazanov, 1989.
Mikhail Gluzsky.
Yuri Nikulin’s son.
Yuri Nikulin, 1979. “Nikulin goes to the circus. Yuri takes a whisk, to sweep off snow. I touch his sleeve: one Second, one frame…”
Yuri Nikulin.
Politician Alexander Yakovlev during a walk on the sled.
On the construction of the pipeline. Tyumen, 1968.
Change, 1970.
Fishing on the canal, 1957.
Slush, 1956.
Tram. Leningrad, 1956.
Rails. Leningrad, 1956.
Patterns of Petersburg, 1957.
Ferris wheel. Leningrad, 1955.
Vintage, 1960s.
The first day, 1964.
In the arch of the General staff, 1955.
View of Palace square. Leningrad, 1955.
From the series “Bridges of St. Petersburg”, 1957.
From the series “Petersburg embankments”, 1957.
From the series “Petersburg embankments”. On the walk, 1957.
“We both waited, I’m at a drugstore…”, 1956.
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