Famous Irkutsk photographer Boris Dmitriev gave his slides to the museum

IRKUTSK. In the archive of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev photographer Boris Dmitriev transmitted 130 slides that depict paintings - both those stored in the IOKhM funds and those owned by famous Irkutsk authors. So on the slides you can see more than 30 works of the artist Boris Desyatkin, many of which are now in private collections. In addition, the slides contain paintings by Galina Novikova and Vladimir Kuzmin.

From the collection of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum on the slides you can see portraits of merchants and famous Siberians, as well as icons that were photographed back in the Epiphany Cathedral, where the department of Siberian art of the art museum was located for several years.

All slides are shot on a wide film, which ensures high technical quality of the picture. Such images are suitable for printing. In addition, they are important for archival work in the museum, since information is accumulated here related to the life and work of artists.

In the near future, according to the head of the archive of the art museum, Yulia Sergeeva, work will be carried out to identify each slide to clarify the name of each picture and the date of shooting.

Boris Vasilievich Dmitriev (1939, Irkutsk) - photographer, member of the Union of Photographers of Russia, member of the Union of Photographers of Siberia, laureate of the prize of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region for a series of art photographs dedicated to the nature of Siberia, Baikal, awarded for many years of contribution to the development of the culture of the region.