Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev

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Maxim Dmitriev before 1917
Maxim Dmitrijew anno 1897: Spoon production in the village of Deianowo ( Volga region )

Maxim Petrovich Dmitrijew ( Russian Максим Петрович Дмитриев , scientific transliteration Maksim Petrovič Dmitriev ; born August 21, 1858 in the village Powalischino, Kirsanow district , Tambov governorate ; † October 15, 1948 in Nizhny Novgorod. ) Was a Russian photographer .

Live and act

Maxim Dmitriev, the son of a landowner, moved to Nizhny Novgorod in 1877 and worked there in Andrei Karelin's studio. After he had acquired all the techniques and finesse of his master, he opened his own studio in Nizhny Novgorod in 1887.

In 1892, his photos on the subject of “Prisoners working on the construction site” in Paris impressed the international public.

In 1893 Maxim Dmitrijew went to the Russian typhus epidemic areas with his camera .

Maxim Dmitrijew photographed along the native Volga on the subject of “Man and Landscape”. Exhibitions made him known in Paris, Amsterdam , Chicago and New York .

Maxim Dmitriev was a member of the Russian Photographic Society, which was founded in 1894 and liquidated in 1930.

Works

Web links

Commons : Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Russian Карелин, Андрей Осипович
  2. Russian Русское фотографическое общество