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Journeys through the Russian Empire - The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Journeys through the Russian Empire - The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey
Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was
undergoing rapid change due to industrialization and the building
of railroads. Between 1903 and 1916 Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed
a pioneering method of capturing color images on glass plates,
scoured the Russian Empire with the patronage of Nicholas II.
Intrepidly carrying his cumbersome and awkward camera from the
western borderlands over the Volga River to Siberia and central
Asia, he created a singular record of Imperial Russia. In 1918
Prokudin-Gorsky escaped an increasingly chaotic, violent Russia and
regained nearly 2,000 of his bulky glass negatives. His subsequent
peripatetic existence before settling in Paris makes his
collection's survival all the more miraculous. The U.S. Library of
Congress acquired Prokudin-Gorsky's collection in 1948, and since
then it has become a touchstone for understanding pre-revolutionary
Russia. Now digitized and publicly available, his images are a
sensation in Russia, where people visit websites dedicated to them.
William Craft Brumfield-photographer, scholar, and the leading
authority on Russian architecture in the West-began working with
Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs in 1985. He curated the first public
exhibition of them in the United States and has annotated the
entire collection. In Journeys through the Russian Empire,
Brumfield-who has spent decades traversing Russia and photographing
buildings and landscapes in their various stages of disintegration
or restoration-juxtaposes Prokudin-Gorsky's images against those he
took of the same buildings and areas. In examining the
intersections between his own photography and that of
Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield assesses the state of preservation of
Russia's architectural heritage and calls into question the
nostalgic assumptions of those who see Prokudin-Gorsky's images as
the recovery of the lost past of an idyllic, pre-Soviet Russia.
This lavishly illustrated volume-which features some 400 stunning
full-color images of ancient churches and mosques, railways and
monasteries, towns and remote natural landscapes-is a testament to
two brilliant photographers whose work prompts and illuminates,
monument by monument, questions of conservation, restoration, and
cultural identity and memory.
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