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Bilder eines Reiches : Leben im vorrevolutionären Russland

Title
  • Bilder eines Reiches : Leben im vorrevolutionären Russland / herausgegeben von Boris Groys und Peter Weibel = Образы империи : жизнь в дореволюционной России / под редакцией Бориса Гройса и Петера Вайбеля.
  • Bilder eines Reiches : Leben im vorrevolutionären Russland / herausgegeben von Boris Groys und Peter Weibel = Obrazy imperii : zhiznʹ v dorevoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnoĭ Rossii / pod redakt︠s︡ieĭ Borisa Groĭsa i Petera Vaĭbeli︠a︡.
Publication
Heidelberg : Kehrer, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Гройс, Борис.
  • Groĭs, Boris.
  • Weibel, Peter.
  • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe.
Description
397 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
This book presents previously unpublished photo material that paints a vivid picture of life in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. In the 1860s and '70s the Tsar hired photographers to systematically document various facets of life across the vast Russian realm using the new medium: different classes of society, peoples, landscapes, cities, industrial projects, customs and traditions, wars and prisons. Since photography was mostly used at the time for private or commercial purposes, these pictures represent an interesting special case in social history, functioning in a sense as visual counterparts to the Russian realist literature of that era. Although the documentary projects were supported by official authorities, the photographs nonetheless provide a realistic, illusion-free glimpse of prerevolutionary Russia. The more than 300 photos in this volume, from five Russian museums and two private lenders, are published for the first time, providing insights on a still little-known epoch in the development of the medium of photography.
Alternative Title
  • Образы империи : жизнь в дореволюционной России
  • Obrazy imperii : zhiznʹ v dorevoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionnoĭ Rossii
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Pictorial works
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • German and Russian.
ISBN
  • 9783868282863
  • 3868282866
LCCN
2012510737
OCLC
  • ocn782105725
  • 782105725
  • SCSB-1664370
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library