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The new anniversary exhibition of Naum Granovsky (1910 - 1984) is a large retrospective project combining famous photographs of old Moscow of the 20s and the Stalinist period, as well as lesser-known works created by Granovsky in the era of modernism.

"Moscow chronicler", "chief architectural photographer of the USSR – сontemporaries called him that. For more than half a century, Moscow remained the main character in Granovsky's photographs, he looked at it as a living person, noting all the changes that were happening to it. He came to the same streets and squares, consistently collecting the changing appearance of Moscow of the XX century.

Granovsky began his creative career at an early age, at the age of 16 he came to Moscow from his hometown of Alexandria and got a job as a laboratory assistant in the "Press Cliche" of TASS. Since 1927, he worked as a correspondent for the TASS Photo Chronicle, and since 1934, he worked as a photomaster for the publishing house "Fine Art" (IZOGIZ). During this period, Granovsky began to consistently shoot how Moscow was changing over the years. In 1941, he was a military photojournalist for the newspaper "Trevoga", he shot a lot on the front line and captured the heroic defense of Moscow. In 1946, Granovsky returned to the TASS Photo Chronicle and worked in it for all subsequent years. According to the pictures he took from 1946 to 1984, almost all stages of the post-war reconstruction of the city can be traced.

The construction of high-rises, the appearance of new districts of the capital, the transformation of squares, embankments and squares, the heyday of modernist architecture - the name of Naum Granovsky is associated with these frames today.

In the 60s, several series of postcards "Moscow Old and New" were published, where his first photos are compared with modern pictures at that time. From the late 70s to 1985, Granovsky's photographs were published in the newspaper "Evening Moscow" under the special heading "Moscow yesterday and today", which compared the shots taken by him from one point of shooting in the 30-40s and 70s.