William Brumfield Russian Architecture Digital Collection

Select Bibliography of William Craft Brumfield’s work

2015: Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North. Durham: Duke University Press.

2005-2014: Otkryvaia Rossiiu (Discovering Russia). Moscow: Tri Kvadrata Press. Fifteen volumes to date:

2013: Usol"e : zemli︠a︡ Stroganovykh na Kame. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata Press.

2005-2012: Architectural Monuments of the Vologda Territory. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata Press. Six hardcover volumes to date:

2009: Sotsial’nyi proekt v Russkoi literature XIX veka. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata Press.

2004: A History of Russian Architecture (2nd expanded edition). Seattle: University of Washington Press.

2001 (editor with Boris Anan’ich and Yury Petrov): Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Also appeared in Russian edition.

1997: Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey. Australia: Gordon and Breach Publishers.

1995: Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture. Durham: Duke University Press.

1994 (compiler): An Architectural Survey of St. Petersburg, 1840-1916: A Building Inventory (Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1994).

1993: A History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge UP, 1993) which the New York Times Book Review included in its list of Notable Books of the Year 1993

1993 (editor): Russian Housing in the Modern Age: Design and Social History (Cambridge Univ. Press/Woodrow Wilson Center, 1993). Also appeared in Russian edition.

1991: The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Univ. of California Press, 1991)

1991 (editor): Christianity and the Arts in Russia (with Milos Velimirovich; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991).

1990 (editor): Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams (with Blair Ruble; Cambridge Univ. Press/Woodrow Wilson Center, 1990).

1983: Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture (Boston: Godine, 1983)

Online Publications

• "William Craft Brumfield: Documentary Photography from the William Brumfield Collection." Vologda Region Department of Culture and Tourism. Accessed June 10, 2016. cultinfo.ru/brumfield
  • This is the primary Russian site devoted to Brumfield's photographic work in Russia and is maintained by ​​the Culture Dept of Vologda oblast'. The site is in both Russian and English. Included in the site are a number of articles. The main part of the Vologda site is the Photoarchive, which currently displays some 28,000 images. The direct link to the photoarchive is http://cultinfo.ru/brumfield/photoarchive/index.htm.<
• From "Image Collections," National Gallery of Art.
  • The main collection of Brumfield's work is at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The NGA Department of Image Collections has archived almost 60,000 of his digital images. The NGA also has on long-term loan approximately 40,000 B/W negatives, of which some 10,000 have been printed as 8"x10" study prints. This material is accessible at the study center in the West Wing (registration required). Only a small fraction of this material is currently online. There are, however, three slide gallery special features via the following links:
    • "Travels Across Russia: Murom." National Gallery of Art. Accessed June 10, 2016. http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/library/imagecollections/features/brumfield_murom.html
    • "Travels Across Russia: Torzhok." National Gallery of Art. Accessed June 10, 2016. http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/library/imagecollections/features/brumfield_torzhok.html.html
    • "Travels Across Russia: Ekaterinburg." National Gallery of Art. Accessed June 10, 2016. http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/library/imagecollections/features/travels-ekaterinburg.html
• "The William C. Brumfield Collection," in Collections from the Library of Congress: Photographs. Accessed June 10, 2016. http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/mfdcphot.html#a_eng
  • The Library of Congress has posted approximately 1,200 images scanned from slides donated as part of their Meeting of Frontiers Project.
• "182 results in English" [search results for "brumfield" in the World Digital Library at http://www.wdl.org/en/ ]. World Digital Library. Accessed  Accessed June 10, 2016. http://www.wdl.org/en/search/?q=brumfield&qla=en
  • The World Digital Library project includes 182 reformatted images from the above Library of Congress site. Each image is accompanied by a concise description in seven languages, including English and Russian.
• "Russia Beyond the Headlines: Discovering Russia." Foreign-Language Service of Rossiiskaia Gazeta [Russian national newspaper]. Accessed  Accessed June 10, 2016. http://rbth.com/discovering_russia
  • This service commissioned an ongoing bimonthly series of articles and slide galleries based on Brumfield's documentation of Russia's architectural heritage. Titled "Discovering Russia," the series currently contains a total of over 4,300 images, most of which can be displayed full screen. The link above is the link to the entire collection.
• "Информация об авторе: William C. Brumfield" in Храмы России [Temples of Russia]. Accessed June 10, 2016. http://temples.ru/william_brumfield.php.
  • The site Temples.ru, dedicated to Russian Orthodox Churches, currently has over 1,200 images by Brumfield. The link above is a direct link to Brumfield's collection within Temples of Russia. The site also has an interactive map showing the geographic range of Brumfield's work posted on the site: http://temples.ru/photo_stat.php?ID=1287.
• "Pomor State University and William Craft Brumfield proudly present the first part of a collection of pictures devoted to architecture of the Russian North." Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk (now Northern Federal State University). Accessed June 10, 2016.  http://www.webcitation.org/6Xmdl5GfC
  • A site founded by Pomor State University has several hundred photographs by Brumfield of the architectural heritage of Arkhangelsk oblast'. Although this site has been superseded by the Vologda site listed above and has not been expanded, it contains unique material, together with articles. The site is in both English and Russian.
• [http://www.perm.ru/culture/brumfield/]. Permskaia oblast’ (Russia). Accessed June 10, 2016. http://www.perm.ru/culture/brumfield/
  • ​Created by the governor’s office of Perm Region, this small but elegant gallery contains 20 black and white photographs of churches in Solikamsk​.
• "William C. Brumfield Collection." Clemson University. Accessed June 10, 2016.  http://tigerprints.clemson.edu/brumfield_collection/
  • Site devoted to a survey of Jewish religious and memorial sites in Russia.