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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Rossiiskaia Akademiia khudozhestv (RAKh)


Otdel negativov i fotoreproduktsii s proizvedenii izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva Nauchnogo arkhiva RAKh
[Division of Negatives and Photoreproductions of Works of Fine Arts of the Scientific Archive]

Address: 199034, St. Petersburg, Vasil'evskii ostrov, 3-ia liniia, 2a (Mozaichnyi korpus RAKh)

Telephone: +7 812 323-00-50

Fax: +7 812 323-65-58

Website: https://www.rah.ru/science/nauchnye_p...

Opening hours: Tu 10:30–16:00
Transport: metro: Vasileostrovskaia

Holdings

Total: ca. 200,000 units; 1930–1990s (1914)

The Division of Negatives and Photoreproductions of Works of Fine Arts holds negatives of original works of all full, associate, and honorary members of the Academy of Arts; together with many examples of Early Rus', Russian, Soviet, and foreign works of art, and artistic works of the peoples of Russia and the USSR. There are original photographs of monumental sculpture, photographs depicting the life of the Academy, and photographic portraits of artists. The division holds personal collections of negatives of members of the Union of Artists, including those of the art photographer S.G. Gasilov (1897–1968), who was the founding head of the Photographic Laboratory of the All-Russian Academy of Arts (1935–1968), and the art photographer V.V. Strekalov (1905–1990), who headed the Laboratory from 1968 to 1988. The fond of negatives includes negatives on the history of world art, negatives of drawings of old masters, as well as photographic portraits of painters, writers, scientists, and artists.


Working conditions:
Photographic materials are delivered to the reading room on the same day they are ordered.

Reference facilities:
A general catalogue has entries by author in alphabetical order. Separate divisions are devoted to Russian art (18th–early 20th cc.), Soviet art, foreign art, Russian architecture (18th–early 20th c.), Soviet architecture, art and architecture of Early Rus', art of the peoples of the USSR, decorative and illustrative art (Russian, Soviet, and foreign), and varia (interior views, memorial plaques, etc.).
        Control prints (18x24 cm.) from negatives of works of art are provided in the scholarly card catalogue with data on their provenance. Control prints (6x9 cm.) of negatives of photographs, portraits of artists, and reproductions are provided in card catalogue format with related data. All the materials in the archive are systematized in genre-thematic and subject card catalogues, permitting the efficient retrieval of needed negatives in the collection.

Copy facilities:
Photographic copies can be prepared in the RAKh photographic laboratory. Publication of photographic reproductions is permitted only with precise reference to their archival location. In cases regarding negatives with artistic productions held by museums or in private collections, publication is permitted only with the consent of the holding museum or private collector.


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