Exhibition dedicated to the famous dynasty of photographers from St. Petersburg opened in the Austrian capital

The website of the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Vienna hosted the opening of the electronic exhibition "The Creative Heritage of Karl Bulla and His Sons", a joint project of the Presidential Library and the Karl Bulla Foundation for Historical Photography.

Karl Bulla (1855–1929) became widely known as the first Russian photojournalist.

More than 100 thousand photographs of Karl Bulla are an integral part of the visual image of the Russian Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 1902, he made photo reports about Nicholas II's travels across Russia and, in fact, became the personal photographer of the Russian autocrat.

The exhibition at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Vienna features 60 photographs from the collection of the Karl Bulla Historical Photography Foundation, printed from the author's negatives. They depict the sights of St. Petersburg, historical events and everyday life of the city at the beginning of the 20th century. Viewers will see photographs of world famous Russian writers, artists, singers, dancers. Special attention in the exposition is paid to Karl Bulla's photographs dedicated to Russian-Austrian relations: these are photographs depicting Emperor Franz Joseph I, deputies of the Austrian parliament, famous artists and athletes.

The exhibition has been organized by the Karl Bulla Foundation for Historical Photography (St. Petersburg) with the assistance of the Presidential Library, which electronic collections contain the monograph "The First Russian Photographer Karl Bulla". This publication and many other materials about the creative dynasty are available on the Internet portal and in the remote electronic reading room of the Presidential Library, opened since 2017 at the RCSC in Vienna.

Based on the materials of http://aut.rs.gov.ru/ru/news/72646 portal.