Lobovikov, Sergei (1870-1941), Russian photographer. As a penniless orphan he was apprenticed to a photographer in Viatka (Kirov) where, encouraged by Andrei Karelin, he started his own studio in 1894. His landscapes and peasant genre scenes, using the gum-bichromate and, later, bromoil processes, established him as a leading pictorialist, showing at the 1900 Paris Exposition and scoring triumphs at international salons in Dresden (1909), Budapest (1910), and Hamburg (1911). His diaries vividly describe the complex, quasi-culinary darkroom procedures behind his evocative images of Russian rural life. He remained active in the 1920s, and in 1927 was given a one-man retrospective in Moscow by the Russian Photographic Society. He spent his last years as a scientific photographer in Leningrad (St Petersburg), and died there during the siege.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Meisterwerke russischer und deutscher Kunstphotographie um 1900: Sergei Lobovikov und die Brüder Hofmeister (1999)
