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From: "Vera Beljakova" <>
Subject: 19th c. Russian Colour photography
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:53:45 +0200

Dear Friends,
This is not new, as I (and others) have sent through the
info before,
but it is worth dipping into this wonderful website from
time to time.

This is a collection of rare 19th c. Russian photographs
Which were found in California ....

http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/russia/russia.html

University of California, Riverside -
California Museum of Photography

Russian Empire, 1895-1910: Photographs from stereoscopic
negatives in
the

Keystone-Mast Collection

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View selection of images

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In the 1980s the staff of the California Museum of
Photography
corresponded with Dr.

Victor Minachin, at that time a professor at Comenius
University in
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

He was surveying international collections containing
images of Russian
architecture to prepare a database of repositories.
Minachin is now the
director of Expert Systems at the Russian Academy of
Sciences in Moscow.


Through grants from the International Research Exchange
(IREX) and the
Kress Foundation, he has now made four trips to the
California Museum of
Photography. He has found the CMP's stereoscopic glass
plate collection
to be the most significant body of original stereoscopic
negatives
depicting Russian architecture before Stalin's "urban
renewal" which
resulted in the destruction of many important landmarks.

As a result of this work, Minachin created a computer
database listing
900 stereoscopic photographs of Russia in the
Keystone-Mast collection.
During Dr. Minachin's visit in May, 1993, the California
Museum of
Photography scanned a number of images for a prototype
pictorial
database. Dr. Minachin and his staff have developed a
sophisticated
image database which can be searched based upon a variety
of criteria.
This database provides access to detailed textual
descriptions, city
maps, images as enlargements, stereoscopic views and
significant details
useful in architectural analysis. The graphical user
interface also
lends itself to bilingual presentation in Russian and
English.


Forwarded by Vera Beljakova

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