Conferences, seminars

The conference dedicated the anniversary of the birth of "Exploratory" Photography and Scientific Inquiry of Documents in Russia

Conference topics:
• History of the national museum, archival and criminalistic departments, history of the development of document expertise methods in Russia;
• Questions of the authenticity of photographic documents, dating and attributing of photographs, technological and art historical expertise of historical photography;
• General principles of expertise;
• Theory and methodology of historical documents expertise, expertise of museum items, art works and archaeological monuments;
• Technological, graphological, historical expertise of documents, photographic and optoelectronic methods of the expertise of documents and museum items, modern technologies and equipment for the expertise of documents and museum items, equipment for scientific digitalization of monuments.

Conference includes plenary and break-out sessions, exhibition and presentations of expertise equipment.
Conference will be followed by the publication of collected works.

Participation in the conference is free of charge.

Conference is open for specialists and everyone interested in photography and expertise.

Contact information:

Grigory Shein

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Tel: +7 (812) 314-12-14 (local: 118)

Conference program

29 March (Monday)

11⁰⁰ - 14⁰⁰

1. Denis Tsypkin (State Russian Centre of Photography ROSPHOTO, St.-Petersburg). Evgeniy Burinsky’s “exploring photography” and the birth of historical documents’ expertise in Russia.
2. Ekaterina Tolmacheva (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg). Ethnological photography: methods of study.
3. Rimma Moiseyeva (State Russian Archive of Film and Photodocuments, Moscow). Methods of evaluation of photographic documents acquired by state archives for permanent storage.
4. Ludmila Mashanskaya, Ekaterina Willis (Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art). Problems of identification, description, storage and restoration of contemporary photography (on the material of the Museum’s photographic archive).
5. Marina Volchkova (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Optoelectronic equipment at the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences: possibilities of study, preservation and scientific restoration of archival documents.
6. Alexandra Yeger (State Central Archive of Cinema and Photogarphic Documents, St.-Petersburg). Influence of restoration and conservation on photographic documents: source studies aspect

15⁰⁰ - 18⁰⁰

1. Vladimir Glebov (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Informational potential of photographic image.
2. Grigoriy Sheyin (ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography, St.-Petersburg). Expertise of two 1876 journey albums from ROSPHOTO collection.
3. Alexander Serebryakov, Vladimir Kudryashov, Andrey Moroz (Komita Ltd, St.Petersburg). Elemental express analysis of photographs using x-ray fluorescent method on X-Art M equipment.
4. Marina Toropova (Federal Russian Center for Forensic Examination at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Research of comparative antiquity of documents’ requisites: historical and contemporary aspects.
5. Nikolay Kornyshev (“Rastr” Research Institute, Novgorod). Television spectrum systems for documents examination: condition and perspectives.
6. Alexey Sirenov (St.-Petersburg State University). 1550 Ivan the Terrible’s grant-charter to Uspensky Cathedral: falsification and its discovery by means of optical methods.
7. Valeriy Zelensky (Russian Psychoanalytical Society). Practice of classification of artworks (on the example of New-York Archetypical Symbolism Research Archive).
   
   

30 March (Tuesday)

11⁰⁰ - 14⁰⁰

1. Svetlana Vyalova (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). Nikolay Kondakov’s Sinai Album.
2. Galina Dluzhnevskaya (Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg). Photographs from the Marble Palace Collection.
3. Tamara Kaftanova (State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). The Tretyakov family photographs in the collection of Manuscript Department of the Tretyakov Gallery.
4. Lyudmila Starilova (ROSPHOTO State Centre of Photography, St.-Petersburg). Two collections of A. Ivanov-Terentyev from ROSPHOTO archive.
5. Alexander Teryukov (Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg). Museum’s collection of William Carrick’s photographs and their identification.

15⁰⁰ - 18⁰⁰

1. Valeria Orlova, Alexey Smirnov (Federal Russian Center for Forensic Examination at the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, Moscow). Evgeniy Burinsky’s role in the development of national forensic handwriting examination school and its contemporary state. 
2. Elena Golod (St.-Petersburg State University). Development of the first academic concepts of Slavic-Russian paleography in Russia: I.Sreznevsky, A.Sobolevsky, E.Karsky. 
3. Elena Bystrova (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). Minuscule in Russian paleography. 
4. Dmitry Bodnarchuk (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). The history of Russian signature as a study topic. 
5. Alexandra Chirkova (St.-Petersburg Institute for the History, Russian Academy of Sciences). Identification of scribes of the Papal office in the second half of XII century: on the problem definition. 

31 March (Wednesday)

11⁰⁰ - 14⁰⁰

1. Elena Piotrovskaya (St.-Petersburg Institute for the History, Russian Academy of Sciences). Survey of the documents from A.Geraklitov’s collection in the archives of the Institute. 
2. Andrey Bogdanov (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). P.Kartavov: collector, scientist, personality. 
3. Evgeniy Lyakhovitsky (National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg). Album filigranography: instrument of identification or examination? 
4. Sergey Sirro (State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg). Specifics of the Russian mid- XVIII century papers. 
5. Olga Derkacheva, Dmitriy Heyfetz (St.-Petersburg State Technological Institute of Plant Polymers). Molecular spectroscopy as the basis for expertise of various types of paper.

15⁰⁰-18⁰⁰

Presentation of expert equipment and methods

1. Gross Armin, Tagle Roald (Bruker Nano GmbH, Berlin, Germany). Application of µXRF Spectrometry for Photographs and Documents.
2. Alexander Serebryakov, Vladimir Kudryashov, Andrey Moroz (Komita Ltd., St.-Petersburg). Element express analysis of photographs with x-ray fluorescent method, X-Art M equipment.
3. Jacob Svann (Metronex Ltd, Moscow). Use of portative RFA spectrometers in examination of cultural heritage objects. Curators will be provided an opportunity to hold RFA spectrometer examination of the chemical contents of photographic documents, paper samples or other objects of cultural heritage they bring along.
4. Sergey Kuznets, Nikolay Priyatkin (VideoTesT Ltd, St.-Petersburg). Computer analysis of images with the use of VideoTesT hardware-software systems.