Stories about photographers and photographs

Vladimir Nikitin is a professional photographer and journalist who taught the story of photography not only at St. Petersburg State University, but also at the universities of Clemson and North Aiova, Stockholm and Bergen. He devoted more than one decade to the study of his beloved subject - both as a theorist and as a practitioner. In his book, Nikitin opens up an amazing world of art of photography, in an exciting form, telling about the largest photo artists, the features of their work, the author’s manner and secrets of skill. Here, Davignon, who made the Dagerrrotypes of the Decembrists in the Siberian exile, and Levitsky, who shot Gogol, Herzen and Mendeleev, and one of the pioneers of color photography Prokudin-Gorsky, and the dynasty of the first Russian photocumentalists Bull, and the Icon of the artistic photograph of Cartier-Bresson ... The publication is illustrated by rare pictures famous masters