[Two Young Women at Window] ca. 1870 Andrei Osipovich Karelin Russian Trained as an icon painter, Karelin operated a photographic studio and drawing school in the provincial town of Nizhny Novgorod. His repertoire included portraits, landscapes, and city views, but his most artistically ambitious photographs were genre scenes staged in domestic interiors, such as this view of two young women before an open window. Like his British contemporary Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901), Karelin skillfully blended reality and artifice to create picturesque images of provincial bourgeois [Two Young
[Two Young Women at Window] ca. 1870 Andrei Osipovich Karelin Russian Trained as an icon painter, Karelin operated a photographic studio and drawing school in the provincial town of Nizhny Novgorod. His repertoire included portraits, landscapes, and city views, but his most artistically ambitious photographs were genre scenes staged in domestic interiors, such as this view of two young women before an open window. Like his British contemporary Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901), Karelin skillfully blended reality and artifice to create picturesque images of provincial bourgeois [Two Young Women at Window] 285989
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