Format:
1 Online-Ressource (518 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781478007463
Content:
This lavishly illustrated volume features hundreds of full-color images of Russian architecture and landscapes taken by early-twentieth-century photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky juxtaposed against those of contemporary photographer and scholar William Craft Brumfield. Together their images document Russia's architectural, artistic, and cultural heritage.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- 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 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress -- The William Brumfield Collectction, National Gallery of Art -- Part II: Journeys -- One. The Ancient Heartland -- Two. The West: From Smolensk Southward to Ryazan -- Three. The Northwest: From Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin -- Four. The Upper Volga: From the Valdai Heights to Torzhok -- Five. The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets -- Six. From the Ural Mountains into Siberia -- Seven. Central Asia-Turkestan -- Eight. North to the Solovetsky Islands -- Conclusion. Above the Abyss: A Reflection on Photography as an Instrument of Memory -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478006022
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brumfield, William Craft, 1944 - Journeys through the Russian Empire Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781478006022
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Prokudin-Gorskij, Sergej Michajlovič 1863-1944
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Brumfield, William Craft 1944-
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Russland
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Architekturfotografie
;
Landschaftsfotografie
;
Bildband
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6147472
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007463
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478007463
