Exhibitions: The exhibition of XIX century photography from the ROSPHOTO collection to open in St. Petersburg

State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography ROSPHOTO with support of the Ministry of culture of Russian Federation has developed from September 6 till October 7, 2012 the exhibition of the photography xix century from the ROSPHOTO collection.

State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography ROSPHOTO has developed a series of exhibitions dedicated to its 10 year anniversary. In 2012, the exhibition halls in Bolshaya Morskaya will introduce to the audience the best examples of ROSPHOTO collections of contemporary photography and Russian XIX century photography. In 2013, the audience will see in the Centre's exhibition halls photographs of the first half of XX century along with foreign XIX century photography from ROSPHOTO collection.

The exhibition of XIX century photography is one of the most important events of ROSPHOTO Anniversary program. This exhibition introduces to the audience the items that formed the core of ROSPHOTO collection: photographs by well known masters William Carrick, Alfred Lorens, Dmitry Yermakov, Maxim Dmitriyev, as well as no less interesting anonymous works. As the exhibition reviews the diverse collection, it also includes Feodor Orlov’s photographs demonstrating the consequences of the Crimean War, the views of the Caucasus, the Crimea, Moscow and St.-Petersburg, along with ethnographic “types” and pages from “Traveller’s Albums” and “Traveller’s Memories”, photographs from N. Nekhoroshev’s “Turkestan Album” and “Khiva Album”, as well as panoramic photographs of Tbilisi, Vladivostok and Balaklava, and Russian portrait and landscape photography in general.