online photo gallery of life in Vladimir Russia (August 2004)

[amelia glaser]

These are incredible pictures -- thanks so much for sharing them!

Amelia Glaser


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 05:11:32 -0400, Ian Helfant
<ihelfant at mail.colgate.edu> wrote:
> Deer SEELANGS members:
>
> I am leading the Colgate-Mount Holyoke Consortial Moscow study group of 11
> students for Fall 2004.  We spent August in Vladimir and while there I
> compiled a large collection of high-quality photographs of everyday life,
> mostly of human subjects along with some architecture, etc.  I've posted
> the collection at
> http://people.colgate.edu/ihelfant/Russia_04_pics/Russia_1/.  (You may
> have to cut and past this link to get there.)
>
> Please feel free to check out the gallery of 78 pictures if you're
> interested and to make any suggestions about technique or subject matter,
> as I'll be continuing this project here in Moscow for the next 3 months.
> I'd especially welcome any comments from the ethnographists among us about
> the ethics involved in taking pictures of human subjects.  The pictures
> were taken with a Canon Digital Rebel six megapixel SLR and an assortment
> of lenses ranging from wide-angle through 640 mm telephoto.  Please note
> that you can see the original large files by double clicking on any of the
> slides.
>
> On a side note, I will be printing enlargements (the gear will allow
> archive quality enlargements up to at least 12 x 18, and very reasonable
> enlargements up to poster size)  to hang in our Russian teaching rooms at
> Colgate upon my return in December.  If you see any pictures that you
> might be interested in enlarging yourselves, please let me know off-list.
> If there's sufficient interest, I will do some investigating of how much
> it would cost to get enlargements to you (color corrected, professional
> quality, and all that of course).
>
> Also, if anyone has any particular suggestions or requests about things to
> photograph here in Moscow, please let me know.
>
> Best to you all, -- Ian Helfant (Assoc. Prof. of Russian, Colgate
> University)
>
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