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Images of Saint Petersburg.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
An exhibition at the Hermitage's outpost in Amsterdam highlights the Russian museum's holdings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography. Use of the new process was taken up enthusiastically by the imperial family, who appointed selected practitioners as court photographers. In the early years this office was filled by Sergey Levitsky and Carlo Bergamasco. By 1890 Karl Bulla dominated, taking photographs of the imperial family and their residences, as well as of the streets and street life of Saint Petersburg.
Portraiture was one important subject, but others included topography--both urban and rural--and genre scenes. Like many cities elsewhere, the transformation of particular buildings and places can be documented through period photographs. An example by Bulla from the 1880s shows a cupola ...
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