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The Photographers of Belarus. 1850–1918, a book by Alexander Velichko, will be presented in the Education technology hall (room 346), at 16.00 on March 14.
Panoramic photos, selfies, filters... Today in a minute you can make hundreds of photos, process them and then download to Instagram, VC, FB or send them to friends around the world. But there was a time when the portrait was a luxury, the photos were prepared thoroughly and after the words "attention, the bird will fly out right away", a long and painstaking process of film manifestation and printing of photos was going on.
Alexander Velichko, the author of an amazing book The Photographers of Belarus. 1850–1918, invites to make a trip to those distant times – the beginning of the 20th century. The original edition tells about the real masters of the lens, those who made the photo available from the moment the first photo-studio appeared in the towns and cities of the North-West Province.
On the pages of the book there are biographies of 624 photographers. Each reference is accompanied by the discovered forms or archival documents. Ancient portraits from private collections allow you to see the face of an entire era, to learn the details of clothes, poses, haircuts of people depicted in the pictures.
The author and compiler of the book Alexander Velichko has devoted more than 40 years to research in the field of phaleristics, deltiology and bonistics. His works have appeared in the periodical press of Belarus, Russia and Serbia; he is the author of more than three dozen books.
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