Alexander Sliussarev

• Name — Alexander Sliussarev • Born — 9 October 1944 • Birthplace — Moscow, USSR • Died — 23 April 2010 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia

Alexander Sliussarev was born in 1944 in Moscow, Russia. He started taking pictures in 1958 with his first camera "Yunost", received as a gift from his father. In 1962, he participated in "Nasha Yunost'" ("Our Youth") exhibition in the Gorky Park in Moscow. Alexander Sliussarev graduated from Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages as a professional translator from Italian. During his career as a translator he worked with Gianni Rodari, Marcello Argilli and many others. In 1979 he had his first personal exhibition at the Baltic photo festival in Ogre, Latvia. From 1974 to 1984 he created a series of black and white minimalistic "squares" taken with a Rolleiflex camera, which made the photographer famous among fellow photographers and curators. Since 1980 he had numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He continued his photographic work and published his photographs in his blog almost every day, until his last day in April 2010. Alexander Sliussarev had been a member of the Direct Photography (group since 1987. He also was a member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia.

• 1979—1980 — «Alexander Sliussarev», festival Dzintarzeme («Amber land») in Ogre, exhibition's tour: Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas • 1980 — «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in ZNUI • 1983 — «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in «Soviet Photo» magazine's office, Moscow • 1984 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Krasnogorsk • 1987 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Moscow • 1987 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Yoshkar-Ola • 1990 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Aix-en-Provence • 1991 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Amsterdam • 1994 — «Alexander Sliussarev», Central House of Artist, Moscow • 1995 — «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in the gallery «Fotogalerie», Berlin • 1995 — «Alexander Sliussarev», gallery «Volga», Kazan • 1995 — «Alexander Sliussarev», photoClub, Yoshkar-Ola • 2004 — «Alexander Sliussarev, poSLEDSTVIA», photoprogram «24» • 2004 — «Alexander Sliussarev» in «Classics of Russian Photography», Moscow House of Photography. • 2005 — «Impressions», Exposition of two authors – Yedyge Niyazov and Alexander Sliussarev, gallery «Ular», Almaty. • 2006 — «Alexander Sliussarev, 80s», exposition of B&W square images «Photosoiuz» gallery. • 2006 — «Alexander Sliussarev, Transdecadens», photogallery «GLAZ». • 2007 — «Alexander Sliussarev, Everything», photogallery «GLAZ». • 2009 — «False Magic of B/W», Rosphoto, Sankt-Petersburg. Rappoport, A.G.) • 2009 — «1 КАРТА 2 МАРШРУТА. Аман Гельд/Александр Слюсарев». • 2009 — Александр Слюсарев: «Я говорю о простых и понятных вещах...». • 2010 Александр Слюсарев, Аман Гельд «Одна карта, два маршрута» (Куратор: Марат Гельман), Государственный музей архитектуры им. А. В. Щусева, Москва «Фотобиеннале-2010» (каталог) • 2010 — Александр Слюсарев «Проходя мимо», Кировский областной художественный музей имени В. М. и А. М. Васнецовых, Киров • 2012 – Alexander Slusarev, Retrospective. Part 1.)

• Михаил Сидлин «Александр Слюсарев — фотограф теней, бликов и отражений», интервью Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2004 • Юрий Зеленцов «Беседа с Александром Слюсаревым», Интервью «Photo.Picart», 2007. • Интервью телеканалу «Радость моя» *