Photography/painting - century XIX. From the plot to content. O. AVERYANOVA

Photography is magic, alchemy of salts of silver and mercury vapors. In any case, she was not so long ago. The image can tell us a lot. Its value is associated with comprehension of reality. Its story, not very long in comparison with others, has its own specifics relating to the development of technology and visual language. Olga Averyanova, head of the department of photography of the Mlime. A.S. Pushkin, invites us on a trip to the 19th century.

You are waiting for stories about photography and painting, comparison of plots, amazing turns and intersections. The fate of painters and photographers, technology secrets and aesthetic concepts related. Paradoxical coincidences, amazing discoveries, exceptional biographies. A series of narrative “two rows” causes in memory the method of hanging paintings of the 19th century. The book, in which the works of the “elegant format” are exhibited represent the history of two genres in the format of the exposition of the conditional museum. Eternal reflection and rethinking of previous ideas, recent declarations and programs. Metamorphoses of the history of art will be interesting to the widest audience.