Posted on 03/15/2021 7:29:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
It is planned that the film will be shown in California (USA) at the Architecture Design Art Film Festival program in March 2021.
A documentary about William Brumfield, a professor of Slavic Studies, who personally took over 150,000 photographs of Russian Orthodox churches, will be shown at the A.V. Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow on March 13 and 14.
The documentary film by Irma Komladze titled “The Treasure of William Brumfield” tells about a professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University, author of numerous monographs on the history of Russian literature, photographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, curator of the collection S.M. Prokudin-Gorskii (Library of Congress), reports the website of the Museum of Architecture.
William Brumfield, 76 years old, has been photographing Russian Orthodox churches for 50 years, creating a collection of more than 150 thousand photographs. Moreover, these images are not stored chaotically, they are archived and systematized, a storage method and a notation system have been developed for them.
In particular, the professor-photographer creates entire photo plots based on the photo locations of the famous Russian photographer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii.
In addition to churches and monasteries, William Brumfield photographed houses in Vologda, St. Petersburg, Cherepovets and Moscow.
“We made a film about a man who has found his treasure in Russian culture and who devotes his whole life to educational service, “propaganda”, literally, of Russian culture in the West,” said the author of the picture, Irma Komladze.
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Man does that sound like a snoozer
Sounds rather unorthodox
I love Russian history and architecture.
Hope I can see it on YouTube.
me too.....
Yes. Me too.
While stationed in England for about a year and a half I saw probably a hundred Cathedrals in Great Britain and some of Europe. There isn’t much difference between one Cathedral and another. My saying is if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. But then I was a young and dumb kid back then that really didn’t care about details so having said that it could be a little interesting to see his work and learn from it.
(Me Too!)
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