Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Lemkhin, Mikhail
- Abstract:
- Portraits of Russian and Slavic cultural figures taken by photographer Mikhail Lemkhin between 1964 and 1992.
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Undetermined
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Mikhail Lemkhin photographs (MSS PHOTO 0176). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Prints of photo portraits of Russian cultural figures taken by photographer Mikhail Lemkhin--some while he was a student in Leningrad during the 1960s and 1970s.
- Biographical / historical:
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Mikhail Lemkhin is a San Francisco-based photographer. He was born in 1949 in Leningrad and emigrated to the United States in 1983. Lemkhin attended Leningrad State University between 1967 and 1973, and was awarded an MA in journalism and photojournalism. While at the university he worked as a photographer for university departments and for the university newspaper. After receiving his degree, Lemkhin worked as a free-lancer and staff journalist and photographer for various Leningrad newspapers and publications. He has also worked as an advertising photographer for the Graphics Arts Agency, for which he produced more than twenty books.
- Acquisition information:
- This collection was purchased by Stanford University, Special Collections in February 1994.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36 hours in advance.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
- Terms of access:
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© Mikhail Lemkhin. All Rights Reserved.
- Preferred citation:
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[identification of item], Mikhail Lemkhin photographs (MSS PHOTO 0176). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022