03-Хохлов, Дзини

Abstract

In 2016-2018, the authors of the present article carried out an interdisciplinary

historical and anthropological study of the ethnic group of the «Italians of

Crimea», who are the descendants of Italian migrants of the 19th-20th centuries

to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov Regions.

As part of their work fields, the researchers made the anthropological

portrait photography of the member of the group and created their “average”

photographs, otherwise called “composite portraits”. As well, they experimented

the anthropological ultraviolet and infrared portrait photography of the “Italians

of Crimea” and the creation of ultraviolet and infrared composite portraits of the

representatives of this ethnic group.

The methodology for making ultraviolet and infrared anthropological

portrait photography was developed by the authors of the article in the laboratories

of the Centers of Visual and Physical Anthropology of the Institute of ethnology

and anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Later, it was tested

and used for the first time during the research programs accomplished with the

member of the group. The article describes the results of the scientists’ work

fields and presents the preliminary conclusions drawn after using invisible to

human spectra of light in the anthropological portrait photography and in the

compilation of composite portraits.