Antonov Pavel Ivanovich is a successful photographer who created his unique works not only in Russia, but also in America, Switzerland, France and even in the American desert.
Pavel Ivanovich Antonov created many art works through photography. Along the way, he took fascinating interviews with famous representatives of culture. The Master is also an artist and lyricist.
Biography
Pavel Antonov was born in Vologda in 1962 on the first day of May.
Having received the basics of education in a secondary school in the city of Karaganda, at the age of 25 he comes to the capital. Here the future famous photographer enters the Institute of Culture. The young master wanted to get into the faculty of photojournalism, which he did. When he was still a student at the institute, he participated in two projects. One of them is Italian-Russian, which is called "Ilyich's Lamp". The project represents the underground movement. The second event was called "Slavic Project", it was created under the leadership of the director from Poland Jerzy Grotowski.
Career
In 1989, Pavel Antonov was invited to work as a staff photographer at the School of Dramatic Art. This collective was headed by the famous theater director Anatoly Vasiliev, who was also a friend of Pavel Ivanovich.
Here the photographer takes many successful pictures of the performances. These works were appreciated first at home, and then in Europe. The Swedish film and theater director, writer and screenwriter Ingmar Bergen himself invites the young talent abroad after such success. So Antonov became Bergman's personal photographer and staff photojournalist for the Swedish Royal Theater.
Creation
Then Swiss television sends Pavel Ivanovich on a business trip to the city of Grozny. Here he takes pictures of the leaders of the Chechen opposition. Among them: Aslan Maskhadov, Shamil Basayev, Movladi Udugov. Since the fighting was going on there, Paul was wounded as a result of this mission.
But he got better. And two years later he painted several portraits of jazz performers from Russia.
In the same year, Antonov moved to New York. Here he also makes portraits of jazz musicians.
Then fate brought the unique photographer to Robert Wilson, who made a great contribution to the development of the theatrical art in America. This meeting gave the artist the opportunity to make many multimedia projects. At the same time, he removes excerpts from the performances of the famous director. Since 2006, Pavel Ivanovich has been working in one of the American publishing houses, creating colorful covers for famous magazines.
Interesting Facts
In 2009, the famous Russian clown Vyacheslav Polunin invited Pavel Antonov to the American desert. An art festival was held here. Here by that time already a very famous photographer takes many successful pictures, and then creates portraits of famous people.
The creative life of Pavel Ivanovich Antonov is very eventful. He is familiar with many famous people, more than once took photographs of them, created artistic portraits.
