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Video: 19th century Photoshop
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
As we have shown in a series of posts, print photography has about the same degree of historical accuracy as a painting. Without seeing the original negative, the viewer can hardly discern the line between reality and the retoucher's fantasy. And it has always been so, from the first days of painting.
In Russia, "photoshopped" from the middle of the 19th century. Today we will share one of the earliest and most surprising examples.
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A well-known photo of Shamil's oath of allegiance in the building of the noble assembly. I have never questioned him, although the proportions of the room are clearly out of order.
This is what the author of the photograph, Bernard Goldberg, writes in a memo to Kaluga Governor I. E. Shevich:
On August 26, 1866, in Kaluga, prisoner of war Shamil took the oath of allegiance to the Emperor and Russia.
Seeing this as a wonderful historical event, I set myself the task of portraying it through photography. If it was impossible to remove the oath in its taking, I filmed separately each person, room and things that were during Shamil's oath, then grouped them. My task was great and for its fulfillment I did not spare either labor or my limited means, and after nine months of constant studies, I achieved my goal. The first copy of a photographic image of Shamil's oath of allegiance to Russia with his family, I dared to present to the Emperor, and His Majesty, having accepted this copy, most mercifully welcome me a gift and a monetary reward."
This collage in LARGE SIZE:
The story continues:
Shamil spent more than nine years in Kaluga. It was here that his reconciliation with Russia took place. In the hall of the Kaluga noble assembly in September 1866, Shamil took the oath of allegiance together with his sons Kazi-Mohammed and Mohammed-Shefi. "On October 10, 1932, an official request was sent to the Kaluga Museum with the following content:" The Chechen Research Institute of National Culture has information that in Kaluga there are materials concerning Shamil and other mountain leaders sent by the tsarist government to Kaluga. culture, studying historical materials related to the conquest of the Caucasus and the struggle of the mountaineers for their independence, asks to transfer to the head of the Chechen Regional Museum Comrade Sheripov Zaurbek all items related to Shamil and his life after captivity, as well as other materials related to the history of the struggle the highlanders for their national independence.”This demand was satisfied, and on April 24, 1933, the director of the Kaluga Museum V. Izvekov sent the requested materials to Grozny -“photographic photographs-originals relating to Shamil’s stay in Kaluga: a total of 6 originals and 5 copies from them ".
Thus, during the period of active movement of objects, the Kaluga Museum lost a significant part of the existing complex of authentic materials, because the further fate remained unknown. The value of the lost items was that they were directly related to the stay of the captive imam and his family on the Kaluga land. In the museum's funds, only one of the seven photographs has survived, depicting Shamil's oath, and the imam's receipt for the money assigned to him for the maintenance. These items were not transferred to Grozny, probably for ideological reasons, as they went against the task set - to collect materials about the "struggle of the mountaineers for their independence."
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