Dr. Inessa Kouteinikova
ForschungsinstitutScholar in Residence
Email i.kouteinikova.ext@deutsches-museum.de
Email inessa@xs4all.nl
Zeitraum: 1. September bis 30. November
Alpinomania: the early developments of the panoramic photography in the mountains: technique, experiments and science put to use and misuse
Dr. Kouteinikova has been researching, publishing and teaching on photographic histories and techniques, origins of the 19thC museums, colonial cultures and expeditions. She lives in Amsterdam and works as a photographic researcher. Inessa’s professional experience, art and architecture education and background illuminate her writing, while her research is based on assemblage of archival data and material objects. She curated the large-scale exhibition Russia’s Unknown Orient, 1850-1920 at the Groningen Museum (Netherlands, 2010-11), resulting in the bilingual publication and involving principal collections from Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia (https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring12/russias-unknown-orient-orientalist-painting-1850-1920).
Her book “Central Asia on Display: Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan” was published by Routledge (2023) https://www.routledge.com/Photographing-Exploring-and-Exhibiting-Russian-Turkestan-Central-Asia/Kouteinikova/p/book/9780367564179. She is currently working on Alpinomania: the developments of the 19th century panoramic photography, techniques and cameras in the mountains” which treats the technological culture of the early panoramic photography, the destiny of the pioneers behind the spectacular devices, the imperial network and political geography of photographic customs, the use and abuse of the alpine landscape through camera. (The Royal Brill, Leiden/Boston:2027)