Pictures of Russian life - William Carrick in ROSPHOTO
Photos of 1850's 70's one of the first Russian photographer William Carrick of the museum and archives of Russia
In ROSPHOTO, in the Exhibition Hall Yard building (St. Petersburg, Bolshaya Morskaya, 35) the exhibition "Paintings of Russian life - William Carrick».
presented photos 1850-70 from the collections of the National Library, the State Hermitage Museum Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Ethnography), St. Petersburg State Theatre Library, Scientific Library of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Central Naval Museum, the Russian Museum of Ethnography.
monographic exhibition of William A. Carrick (1827-1878 ) ROSPHOTO continues a series of research projects under the title "Russian photographers of the nineteenth century." The task of the series - to provide the most important moments of the history of Russian photography, unique monuments of national photography stored in museums and archives of Russia, to acquaint viewers with the creativity of the best masters of the early national photography.
| shopkeeper. 1860 State Hermitage Museum Source: |  WILLIAM Carrick Boys - street vendors. 1860 State Hermitage Museum Source: |
William Carrick was born in Edinburgh (Scotland) but as early as age was brought by parents in Russia. In 1853 he received the Imperial Academy of Arts title "neklassnogo artist with the right to make the structure, then lived in Rome (until 1856), perfected the technique of watercolor painting and getting acquainted with photography, rapidly coming into fashion. Returning to St. Petersburg serious interest in photography as "art of the future", Carrick worked briefly as a "researcher-assistant in a shop of artist Ivan Goh.
In 1857 he and his family traveled to their homeland, in Scotland, where he studied the technique of photography and became acquainted with her latest.
the spring of 1859 William Carrick has opened a shop in St. Petersburg, where he worked with a friend and companion, Scotsman John MacGregor.
famous photographer brought a series of photographs titled "Pictures of Russian life." Creative task, which has set itself the Carrick, was the creation of images of ordinary people whose fate so sad close to him in spirit advanced by the representatives of Russian society, 1860. Drawing on a long artistic tradition, he created a series of St. Petersburg "street" types ". It includes studio portraits of solitary maids, coachmen, grinders in the format of the card visit and outdoor group staged photo in the format "kabinetok».
| At the River. 1860-70 St. Petersburg State Theatre Library Source: |  WILLIAM Carrick peasant children. 1860 St. Petersburg State Theatre Library Source: |
One of the first Carrick left the pavilion and began to engage in full-scale photography, capturing genre of "folk scene" in St. Petersburg and its suburbs, in the Novgorod province and in Finland. Photos by Carrick, are not perceived as ethnographic documents, as well as expressive, subtly and skillfully put artistic compositions. In 1870 he traveled to Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kazan, Simbirsk, which have resulted in about 700 shots "desk" in an ethnographic format, landscape and portrait genres.
In addition, Carrick attached great importance to photography as a tool to assist arts - photography "art studies" that could help in creating paintings, as well as manufacturing for the general sale of photographic reproductions of paintings. In 1880, in St. Petersburg was organized by the "Exhibition of photographs of paintings by the court artist Professor Mihaly Zichy , executed photograph of Carrick."
 WILLIAM Carrick farmer. Series "Russian St. Petersburg Province. 1860 Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Ethnography) Source: | Russian farmer from the province of Tver. 1860 St. Petersburg State Theatre Library Source: |
Since 1876 Carrick had title of photographer of the Imperial Academy of Arts, was a member of the Division of photography of the Imperial Russian Technical Society.
According to the researcher of V. Carrick EV Barkhatova, "attention to the legacy of this master stored in many museum, library and personal collections, over time there has been increasing. And as we study it becomes clearly evident how much relevance to the problems of his time was concentrated in the pioneering work of Scotsman William A. Carrick, who selflessly served the development of Russian culture ».
The album directory , which includes research articles on the life and work of VA Carrick (PhD, Head Department of Prints NLR EV Barkhatova, a leading researcher at Glasgow University Sarah Stevenson, curator of photography at the Museum of Victoria and Albert Martha Weiss), and well as a detailed catalog and illustrations photographs in the exhibition.
The exhibition runs until January 31, 2011.
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