At the age of fourteen, after being orphaned early, Sergei Lobovikov (= Сергей Лобовиков, 1870-1941) was sent from a small village to the provincial town of Vyatka (now Kirov), of which he would later become an honorary citizen. The idea was to train him as a shopkeeper and a photographer. The rest is history best seen rather than told: sales were never his calling, photography very much was.
Портреты крестьян, крестьянский быт / Portraits of peasants, peasant life – 1900
(Nigel Fowler Sutton, 2018, 4 m)
Русские фотографы. Сергей Лобовиков. Sergey Lobovikov – Photography
(Serge Bogdanov, 2016, 8 m)
“Светопись сердцем”. Фильм о фотографе Сергее Лобовикове.
(Arte.M, 2020, 24 m)
More Sergei Lobovikov
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- Sergey Lobovikov (Masters of Photography, 2020)
- «Мужики и бабы» Сергея Лобовикова. Штрихи к портрету легендарного вятского фотографа (2017)
- Сергей Лобовиков. Портреты крестьян, крестьянский быт (Fra Евгений, 2015)
- Сергей Лобовиков. Вятский «мужицкий фотограф» (Vyatkawalks.ru)
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