Discourse about Pictorial Photography in Russia at the Beginning of 20th Century

Nadezhda Stanulevich

Russian Art: Changing Perceptions, Jacobs University, Bremen

4th June, 2015

Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii and Nikolay Petrov

Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)

Photographer

Scientist

Colour documentary project 1909-1915

Peasant girls. 1909.Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.

Special camera for additive colour photography process

Magic lantern of professor MietheDeutsches Museum, München

Presentation of colour photographs

Reconstruction from film “Colour of Nation” by Leonid Parfenov, 2014.

Adolf Miethe(1862-1927)

Prokudin-Gorskii’s studio was opened in 1900s.

Colour postcards based on Prokudin-Gorskii’s photo. 1905.

Prokudin-Gorskii was an editor in chief of “Photographer Amateur” since 1906.

Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in August 1918.

Library of Congress bought collection of Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographs in 1948.

Nikolay Petrov(1876-1940)

Studied at Riga Polytechnic Institute.

Chairman of Photography Society “Daguerre” in Kiev since 1906.

Petrov started to be one of the editor in “Bulletin of Photography” since 1911.

O. Krasovitova (Petrova). 1910.Nikolay Petrov.

Nina Petrova. 1908.Nickolay Petrov.

Nikolay Petrov(1876-1940)

After the Revolution was a professor at different Institutes.

Died after stroke in 1940.

Photographer AmateurVS

Bulletin of Photography

Bulletin of Photography

Published since 1908.

Used middling paper for articles and embossing paper for photocopy.

Mentioning of initial photographic process.

Author's message analysis.

Photographer Amateur

Published since 1893.

Chalk overlay paper for black-and-white phtographs.

Used painting cardboard for design colour photograhs.

Scene at Wapping. c. 1900-1909.Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Museum of London.

Discourse about Pictorial Photography

N. Petrov “About Amateur Photography”, 1908.

Letter from N. Petrov to S. Prokudin-Gorskii, February 9, 1909.

Issue article “For readers” in “Photographer Amateur”, April, 1909.

Letter from N. Petrov to S. Prokudin-Gorskii was published in “Photographer Amateur”, April, 1909.

“LET”S BE ORIGINAL”, E.K., Bulletin of Photography, November, 1909

Ezhov, Bulletin of Photography, March, 1911.

Editors answer to Prokudin-Gorskii, Bulletin of Photography, March, 1911.

Historiography of discourse

S. Morozov

Russian Art Photography

1955

Historiography of discourse

S. Garanina

Document or Image? Polemic by masters.

Photography

Issue 4, 1994

Bush of roses. 1908.

Nickolay Petrov.

Sketch. c. 1905-1915.

Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.

Forest road. 1908.

Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.

In autumn. 1910s.

Nikolay Petrov.

Acknowledgments Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs

University, Bremen

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The National Library of Finland, Helsinki

The Library of Academy of Science, St. Petersburg

The Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum, St. Petersburg

Professor Sergey Poltorak

Maria Gourieva

Olga Khoroshilova

Inessa Kouteinikova

and my family for their support