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Laboratory of Audio-Visaul Anthropology
Head of Department
Ekaterina TOLMACHEVA
Department Staff
Levon AYVAZYAN, Photographer
Aleksandr KOPANEV, Junior Reseacher
Stanislav SHAPIRO, Photographer
Main objectives and activities
- Digital photography of museum specimens during the design and implementation of exhibition projects (permanent and temporary exhibitions at MAE, traveling exhibitions in Russia and abroad);
- Digital photography of museum specimens for MAE publications;
- Digital photography of museum specimens for other publications, at requests from Russian and foreign research centers on contract and agreement basis;
- Digitalization of the MAE analogous photographic funds (negatives and prints);
- Procession of digital photographs and scans;
- Creation of a digital archive of the MAE RAS collections;
- Creation of a digital archive of photographic and illustrative collections of the MAE RAS;
- Photography of permanent and temporary exhibitions at MAE;
- Photography of all important events in the museum and scientific life of the MAE RAS;
- Photography for the museum web site;
- Storage, procession and systematization of field audio-, video-, and photographic materials in digital format;
- Carrying out of specialized ethnographical photo-expeditions