Brumfield Journeys through the Russian Empire

The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0746-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brumfield, William Craft

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Einzelne Fotografen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Author's Note ix
Introduction. An Unsentimental Journey 1
Part I. Documenting Cultural Legacies of an Empire
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Photographer of an Empire 13
The Intertwining of Two Collections 27
The Prokudin-Gorsky Collection, The Library of Congress 13
The William Craft Brumfield Collection, National Gallery of Art 33
Part II. Journeys
1. The Ancient Heartland 39
2. The West: From Smolensk Southward to Ryazan 101
3. The Northwest: From Lake Ladoga to the Volga Basin 167
4. The Upper Volga: From Valdai Heights to Torzhok 225
5. The Volga from Uglich to Yurevets 277
6. From the Ural Mountains to Siberia 351
7. Central Asia—Turkestan 413
8. North to the Solovetsky Islands 473
Conclusion. Above the Abyss: A Reflection on Photographs as an Instrument of Memory 497
Index 507

Über Autor(innen)

William Craft Brumfield is Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University. Brumfield, who began photographing Russia in 1970, is the foremost authority in the West on Russian architecture. He is the author, editor, and photographer of numerous books, including Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North and Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture, both also published by Duke University Press. Brumfield is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2002 he was elected to the State Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, and in 2006 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. He is also the 2014 recipient of the D. S. Likhachev Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of Russia. In 2019 he was awarded the Russian state Order of Friendship medal—the highest decoration of the Russian Federation given to foreign nationals—for his study and promotion of Russia’s cultural legacy. Brumfield's photographs of Russian architecture have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums and are part of the Image Collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.