Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia
The Russian Museum of Photography was created on September 21, 1992 on the initiative of the public. He became the state since 2000. This is one of the youngest museums in Nizhny Novgorod.
The Museum of Photography is located in a building built in the XIX century, and is protected by law as a monument of history and culture. It was in this building that world-famous photographers worked: Andrei Osipovich Karelin (1837-1906) – the founder of artistic photography, Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev (1858-1948) – the founder of journalistic photography. On the second floor of this building was their photo pavilion, specially designed and built for this purpose. To have more light, one of the walls of the pavilion, facing the street, was completely glass. At the end of the XIX century on the 3rd floor lived the family of MP Dmitriev, on the 1 st – his phototype was located.
In the house number 9 on the street. Osipnoy (now street Piskunova) at the end of the XIX century, many famous people of different professions and estates visited. About this preserved the memories of the famous artist F. Bogorodsky:
He (the photo pavilion) occupied the entire second floor of the stone white house … All the walls of the entrance and the iron staircase were hung with photographs depicting the life and way of life of Nizhny Novgorod. Almost opposite this house there was a special wooden showcase with a huge mirror glass. This showcase was very popular, it was always crowded by the audience. Here you can see the photographs of AM Gorky with FI Shalyapin, VG Korolenko, PIMelnikov-Pechersky, other figures of culture and art. ”
It is in this building that the Russian Museum of Photography is now located. In the museum funds there are already more than 207 thousand items of storage. These are daguerreotypes, negatives, stereonegatives, positives, stereotypes, postcards, cameras, photographic enlargers, photo albums, medals, letters, personal belongings of famous photographers from the 70s of the XIX century to today.
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