Exhibitions

Having replaced the silver daguerreotype plates in the middle of XIX century, paper prints brought photography closer to graphic art. Grey, brown, burgundy and other color shades of salted paper and albumine paper prints reminded of the noble techniques of pencil, charcoal and sanguine drawing. It is in that time that monochromatic photographic prints on paper served for artists as new source for the study of nature and helped develop their drawing skills. Still, few were ready to openly acknowledge photogaphy, although photographic studies were vastly used in the production of paintings (still-lives, pictures of human body, elements of landscape, architectural details). Among well known painters only Eugene Delacroix, one of the founders of the Heliographic Society (1851), openly supported the new art.

Clémetine Foudation gives us a rare opportunity to see these unique photographs (among them self-portrait of E.Delacroix, portrait of Emil Zola, E.Disderi's photographic collage fitting 321 characters into a 6 by 10 cm print, paper negatives of E.Baldus and F.Petiot-Groffier) that are at the same time priceless evidences of the history of photogrpahy.

The exhibition "Colors of Early French Photography" gives food for thought especially in the field of historiosophy. The images require slow and thoughtful peering, contextual comprehension of each of them.

The exhibition will be accompanied with a seminar (also prepared in collaboration with Clémentine Foundation) dedicated to the history of early French photography. The seminar will be held at ROSPHOTO in the middle of October, with participation of leading French specialists.

International symposium

“Quand la Photographie entre au Musée”

October 13, Wednesday

13.00 – Start of sessions

Zakhar Kolovsky (General Director, ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography) Introduction.

Michel Frizot (Paris). Defining concept and choosing photographic material for The New History of Photography.

Francesca Bonetti (Rome), Marco Antonetto (Lugano). Content of Roman photographic collections after Papa Pius IX. The project of a dictionary of XIX century Roman photographers.

Francois Cheval (Niepce Museum). What photographs, which museums? Choices of museum custodian.

17.00 – Film demonstration. Sensible to Light: Nicephore Niepce and Photography. Film by Michel Frizot, Jean-Michel Sanchez.

October 14, Thursday

13.00 – start of sessions

Serge Plantureux (Clementine Foundation, Paris). Project of a classifier for the organization of systematic photography collection.

Serge Kakou (Paris). Voyage photography in XIX century (on the example of Oceania).

Clementine Foundation. Support of innovation projects in the field of photography conservation and exhibiting.

17.00 – Practical workshop for custodians on the materials of Colors of Early French Photography exhibition.

October 15, Friday

13.00 – start of sessions

Anatoly Zlobovsky (Moscow)

Russian pictorialist photographers: technological analysis of works.

Valeriy Valran, Maxim Vishnevsky, Vadim Yegorov (“Na Liteinom” antiques- and bookstore, St.-Petersburg)

Catalogues of Boris Smelov and Boris Kudoyarov exhibitions

Round table discussion: Accordance of photographic collection to museum’s profile

Moderator: Zakhar Kolovsky

Annual scientific conference

“Photography in Museum”

and

“Quand la Photographie entre au Musée”

International symposium on the problems of research, storage and exhibition of historical photography

ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography

Front Building Hall, 35 Bolshaya Morskaya street, St.-Petersburg,

October 12-15, 2010

October 12,Tuesday

First Meeting of Coordination Board of the Program of Preservation of the National Photographic Archives of the Russian Federation

10.00 – registration of participants

11.00 – start of sessions

Zakhar Kolovsky (General Director, ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography) Introduction.

Svetlana Dobrussina, Doctor of Engineering, professor (Director, Federal Center for Conservation of Library Archives). Condition expertise and classification of photographic documents.

Alexey Nevsky (Chief custodian, State Literature Museum). Photographic archive of the State Literature Museum and the program of its conservation and restoration.

Valeriya Kobyakova, Ph.D.in Technical Science, (Head of Military Scientific Department for Preservation of Culture and Historical Monuments, Military and Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps). Preservation of photographic archives of the Museum. Problems and their solutions.

Karina Solovyeva (Head of Photography Department, The Russian Museum of Ethnography). Innovation technologies at the archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography.

Lyudmila Myasnikova (Head of Photographic Materials Department, State Museum of the History of St.-Petersburg). Photographic collections of the Museum: the focus of acquisition and preservation.

Diana Kretsou (Head of the Negative Photographic Sources Archive, State Museum of the Political History of Russia). Conditions and problems of preservation of photography in the Museum’s negative photographic sources archive.

Igor Rodionov (Deputy Director, Redox (Moscow)). Redox company solutions: digitalization of photographic documents and creation of reference systems.

14.00 – Lunch break

15.00 – 18.00: Round table discussion: Program of preservation of photographic documents in the national archives of the Russian Federation.

Moderator – Denis Tsypkin, Ph.D.in History (Deputy Director in science, ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography).

October 13, Wednesday

“Photography in Museum” Conference

10.00 - Registration of participants

11.00 – Start of sessions

Natalya Podgornaya (Leading specialist, Federal Centre for Conservation of Library Archives). Estimation of stability of photographic paper documents for ink-jet printing.

Natalya Chernova (Research fellow, St.-Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Natural ageing of photographic materials.

Vladimir Glebov (Leading specialist, State Archive of the Russian Federation). Documents’ informational capacity and means of its restoration.

12.30 – coffee-break

International symposium

“Quand la Photographie entre au Musée”

13.00 – Start of sessions

Zakhar Kolovsky (General Director, ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography) Introduction.

Michel Frizot (Paris). Defining concept and choosing photographic material for The New History of Photography.

Francesca Bonetti (Rome), Marco Antonetto (Lugano). Content of Roman photographic collections after Papa Pius IX. The project of a dictionary of XIX century Roman photographers.

Francois Cheval (Niepce Museum). What photographs, which museums? Choices of museum custodian.

17.00 – Film demonstration. Sensible to Light: Nicephore Niepce and Photography. Film by Michel Frizot, Jean-Michel Sanchez.

October 14, Thursday

“Photography in Museum” conference

11.00 – start of sessions

Olesya Semyonova (Head of the Department of Research and Description of Figurative Archive, Polytechnic Museum). History and contents of the Photographic sources archive of the Polytechnic Museum.

Alla Makodzeba (Deputy Director, Prozritelev and Prave State Reserve Museum, Stavropol). First Stavropol amateur photographers at the dawn of XX century (based upon the materials of Stavropol State Reserve Museum).

Irina Parmouzina (Custodian of Photographic Documents Archive, Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Reserve Museum). From the history of photographic documentation of the restoration of Uspensky and Blagoveschensky cathedrals at Moscow Kremlin in the late XIX-early XX century.

12.30 – coffee-break

International symposium

“Quand la Photographie entre au Musée”

13.00 – start of sessions

Serge Plantureux (Clementine Foundation, Paris). Project of a classifier for the organization of systematic photography collection.

Serge Kakou (Paris). Voyage photography in XIX century (on the example of Oceania).

Clementine Foundation. Support of innovation projects in the field of photography conservation and exhibiting.

17.00 – Practical workshop for custodians on the materials of Colors of Early French Photography exhibition.

October 15, Friday

“Photography in Museum” conference

11.00 – start of sessions

Evgeniya Nedzvetskaya (Head of Negative Photographic Document Department, State Central Bakhrushin Theatre Museum). Theater photography: epoch’s spiritual and aesthetic memory.

Yekaterina Tolmachyova, Alexandra Kasatkina (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences). Museum photography as an ethnographic source (on the example of A.Groubauer collection).

12.30 – coffee-break

International symposium

“Quand la Photographie entre au Musée”

13.00 – start of sessions

Anatoly Zlobovsky (Moscow)

Russian pictorialist photographers: technological analysis of works.

Valeriy Valran, Maxim Vishnevsky, Vadim Yegorov (“Na Liteinom” antiques- and bookstore, St.-Petersburg)

Catalogues of Boris Smelov and Boris Kudoyarov exhibitions

Round table discussion: Accordance of photographic collection to museum’s profile

Moderator: Zakhar Kolovsky

17.00-19.00: Public excursion round the exhibition Colors of Early French Photography