Introduction: An unsentimental journey -- Part I: Documenting cultural legacies of an empire. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky : photographer of an empire -- The intertwining fates of two collections : the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress; The William Craft Brumfield Collection, National Ga...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Brumfield, William Craft 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Prokudin-Gorskij, Sergej Michajlovič 1863-1944 (FotografIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Durham ; London Duke University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Prokudin-Gorskij, Sergej Michajlovič > 1863-1944 Brumfield, William Craft > 1944- Fotografie Kirchenbau > Motiv Kirche > Motiv Russland > Motiv Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich / 1863-1944 Brumfield, William Craft / 1944- Photographers / Russia / Biography Color photography / Russia / History Architecture / Russia / History / Pictorial works Architectural photography / Russia / Pictorial works Bildband
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	Introduction: An unsentimental journey -- Part I: Documenting cultural legacies of an empire. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky : photographer of an empire -- The intertwining fates of two collections : the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress; The William Craft Brumfield Collection, National Gallery of Art -- Part II: Journeys.The ancient heartland -- The West : from Smolensk southward to Ryazan -- The Northwest : from Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin -- The Upper Volga Basin : from the Valdai Heights to Torzhok -- The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets -- From the Ural Mountains into Siberia -- Central Asia-Turkestan -- North to the Solovetsky Islands -- Conclusion: Above the abyss : a reflection on photographs as an instrument of memory "JOURNEYS THROUGH THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE will contain about four hundred photographs, accompanied by historical contextualization. The project compares William Brumfield's photographs of churches and locations in Russia with the same structures and places photographed by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, an early-20th-century Russian inventor of a color photography process, as much as a century earlier. Through this comparison, Brumfield assesses the state of preservation of Russia's architectural heritage and examines the appeal and pitfalls of seeing Prokudin-Gorsky's striking images as a recovery of Russia's lost past. Brumfield examines fervent Russian engagement with the Prokudin-Gorsky collection, which was recently made broadly available through digitization. The author questions the nostalgic assumptions of many analysts, who see the images as a portrayal of an idyllic Russia intact before the Soviet era and neglect the imperial violence present before the revolution. Prokudin-Gorsky himself was idealistic about the imperial potential. He intended his new color photography to convey the cultural and ethnic diversity of the vast Russian Empire, using this medium to impart a visual message from the provinces to the urban centers about the richness of Russia's history, culture, and borderlands. He escaped Russia in 1918 with many of the heavy glass negatives he used, and the Library of Congress ultimately bought the collection. Because of his own field experience photographing Russian architectural monuments, Brumfield was approached to catalog, restore, and exhibit Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs. While working on the project, he realized how much the two photographer's journeys across Russia had, unintentionally, intersected.
Beschreibung:	Includes index 2005
Beschreibung:	518 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781478006022