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Journeys through the Russian Empire : The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brumfield, William Craft, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.