[LargeFormat] The Czar's Photographer

[Dan Kalish]

Richard, you're very lucky to know your grandparents.

Please explain their age: if they left Russia in 1915 and were 15 years old,
that would make them 103 now.  I imagine they're a bit younger.

My paternal grandparents were from Belaruse and used the name Kaliushkin.  I
was lucky to know them as I was growing up.  Jews didn't have it easy under
the czar so my grandparents never expressed nostalgia for the days before
the revolution.

Dan

> From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] The Czar's Photographer
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 02:26:27 -0700
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Briggs" <MichaelBriggs@Earthlink.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] The Czar's Photographer
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>
> >> Right now I am looking at his photo of the  "special
> shrine for the
> > miracle-working icon known as "Odigitria," traditionally
> associated with the
> > city of Smolensk":
> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/p87-3065.jpg and
> > page 111 of the book.  The colors on the web are much more
> saturated than in
> > the book, for example, in the book the red curtains range
> from dirty brown on
> > the right to muted orangish red on the left, while the web
> image ranges from
> > red in shadow to a vivid red.   The resolution of the LOC
> images is
> > significantly better, probably because they have done a
> better job in lining up
> > the three separation negatives.  The LOC website states
> that the registration
> > is the most difficult step.
> >
> > The exhibit at the LOC was much more impressive than
> either the website or the
> > book.   They printed the photographs fairly large, roughly
> 30 inches wide.  The
> > exhibit is no longer on display, but one might be able to
> view some of the
> > prints by appointment.
> >
> > --Michael
> >
>   Lots of snipping...
>   I was astonished by more than the technical quality of the
> images. It is their quality as pictures. Perhaps also
> because my grandparents came from Russia and these photos
> are a chance for me to glimpse the world they they knew.
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>

Dan Kalish
Flushing, New York, New York, USA