William Craft Brumfield is a contemporary American historian of Russian architecture, a preservationist and an architectural photographer. Brumfield is currently Professor of Slavic studies at Tulane
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Sculpture of William Brumfield by the eminent Russian artist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Shebunin, honoring Brumfield's work in the Russian North (2011).
William Brumfield at an April 18, 2013 event "Memory, Commemoration, Memorialization: Moscow’s Western Battlefields" at the Kennan Institute.
The exhibition "Avant-garde Architecture of the Soviet Era: Photography by William Brumfield" is on view at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis from June 13 through October 14, 2025.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
William Craft Brumfield
…urban culture: 1861-1914 (English edition 2001, Russian edition 2000). In 1986 Brumfield organized the first exhibit of photographic prints from the Prokudin-Gorsky Collection at the Library of Congress. Since that time Brumfield has been actively engaged in the study of Prokudin-Gorsky's photographs, including…
Prokudin-Gorskii "on the Karolitskhali River" in 1912
Lithograph print of Leo Tolstoy in front of Prokudin-Gorsky's camera in Yasnaya Polyana, 1908
Crop from Alleia Hamerops showing the red, green and blue color channels as well as the composite image