Snimat'

[Margaret Anne Samu]

Dear Simon and All,

It's true that snimat' can refer to portrait painting as well as photography, but that does not mean Igorev was not taking photos in China. There were photographers working in China well before 1860. Terry Bennett's new study, /History of photography in China, 1842-1860/ looks at that early history. It would be fascinating to know if Igorev was one of the early practioners.

Best regards,
Margaret

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Margaret Samu, Ph.D.
Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow
Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10028-0198

----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Beattie <Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK>
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:23 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Snimat'
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu


> Dear List,
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>  I have been reading about the artist and icon-painter Lev Stepanovich
>  Igorev.  One source I found says:
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>  Сохранились сведения, что художник, живя в Пекине, <снимал портреты с
>  некоторых знатных китайцев>, а сам Игорев писал в воспоминаниях об этом
>  времени, что много рисовал, особенно то, <что интересовало его>.
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>  [Sokranilos' svedeniia, chto khudozhnik, zhivia v Pekine, "snimal 
> portrety s
>  nekotorykh znatnykh kitaitsev", a sam Igorev pisal v vospominaniiakh 
> ob etom
>  vrememi, chto mnogo risoval, osobenno to, "chto interesovalo ego".]
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>  This was in about 1860.  As well as being a portrait painter, Igorev
>  apparently also took photographs.  1860 would have been quite early for
>  photography in China.  My question is: can "snimat'" only refer to
>  photography, or other drawings and pictures as well?  What did the 
> verb mean
>  in the nineteenth century?  Might it have had a wider sense then?
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