Nadezhda Stanulevich Speech Russian Art: Changing Perceptions, Jacobs University, Bremen 4th June, 2015

1. Discourse about Pictorial
Photography in Russia at the
Beginning of 20th Century
Nadezhda Stanulevich
Russian Art: Changing Perceptions, Jacobs University, Bremen
4th June, 2015

3. Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii and Nikolay Petrov

4. Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii
(1863-1944)
Photographer
Scientist
Colour documentary project
1909-1915

5. Peasant girls. 1909.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.

6. Special camera for additive colour photography process

7. Magic lantern of professor Miethe
Deutsches Museum, München

8. Presentation of colour photographs
Reconstruction from film “Colour of Nation” by Leonid Parfenov, 2014.

9. Adolf Miethe
(1862-1927)

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

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

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

13. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in August 1918.

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

15. Nikolay Petrov
(1876-1940)
Studied at Riga Polytechnic
Institute.
Chairman of Photography
Society “Daguerre” in Kiev
since 1906.

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

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

18. Nina Petrova. 1908.
Nickolay Petrov.

19. Nikolay Petrov
(1876-1940)
After the Revolution was a
professor at different
Institutes.
Died after stroke in 1940.

20. Photographer Amateur
VS
Bulletin of Photography

21. 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.

22. Photographer Amateur
Published since 1893.
Chalk overlay paper for
black-and-white phtographs.
Used painting cardboard for
design colour photograhs.

23. Scene at Wapping. c. 1900-1909.
Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Museum of London.

24. 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.

25. Historiography of discourse
S. Morozov
Russian Art Photography
1955

26. Historiography of discourse
S. Garanina
Document or Image?
Polemic by masters.
Photography
Issue 4, 1994

27. Bush of roses. 1908.
Nickolay Petrov.
Sketch. c. 1905-1915.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.

28. Forest road. 1908.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii.
In autumn. 1910s.
Nikolay Petrov.

31. 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