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Russian Visual Culture

Primary Sources - Photography

Print Reproductions

Monographically published collections of reproductions of photographs are cataloged as books and should be searched in library catalogs such as Princeton's, or "union catalogs" such as World Cat.

Many illustrated periodicals available to Princeton researchers, both newspapers and magazines, contain works of photography and photomontage. To list just a very few representative examples:

Советское фото, Даёшь, 30 дней , ЛЕФ, Новый ЛЕФ, СССР на стройке, Огонёк.

Collections in Libraries

Коллекция изографических материалов в Российской национальной библиотеке
Collection of photographs in the graphic arts collections of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg.
 

 

New York Public Library
Collection “Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs: 1860-1945" at the New York Public Library.
 

 

The Library of Congress
The Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress.
 

 

Princeton University Library
The "Igor Savchenko and Contemporary Belarusian Photography" digital collection.