Sbornik dokladov konferentsii "Fotografii a v muzee" (Collection of Talks of a Conference “Photography in Museums”)

St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2022. pb. The State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto, specializing in the history of photography, initiated a conference in 2012 on the topic “Photography in Museums." In this, the tenth annual issue, authors characterize materials, the time period, and the predominant subject matter of works in various collections from well-known museums like the Tretyakov Gallery and the Shchusev Museum of Architecture to regional museums in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. The topic of 2022 was travel photography; especially vivid are images of the Russian Far East and its peoples and photos of Egypt by the artist Ivan Bilibin. The English summaries facilitate the use of the book as a reference on the history of photography and on what materials are available in which collections. 134 pp., 30 cm, approx. 100 b-&-w and color illus., pb., Rus. with summaries of each article in ENGLISH. Item #4366

Select chapter headings: 1949 expedition to the Amur river; a Soviet artist in southern Asia; photographs from the archives of the Caves Monastery in Pskov; The Soviet pacific coast in the photo journalism of N. A. Nazarov; the northern expedition of a railway engineer; round-the world-voyage of the ship Warrior; the Near East in photographs of teachers in schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society. Run 400.

Price: $62.00