Role of O.M. Pavlovsky in the development of the composite photoportrait method
O. Pavlovsky gave much effort creating generalized portraits of different peoples of Northern Eurasia. He created at least 20 portraits including unique portrait of Papuans. He has worked extensively on the methodological side, creating portraits and suggested original versions of illuminations images. Oleg Mikhailovich was familiar with photography and, in addition, had the abilities of an artist. He also had another talent, a very accurate «eye» for the density of each individual negatives and, accordingly, its share in the total image exposition gallery. Establishment of generalized portraits at that stage of traditional photography methods in many respects resembled art. Pavlovsky, developed and applied the method of conversion of photographic images in to graphic. These illustrations were often more understandable to readers than the original photo. When he created a composite portraits of Georgians and Armenians he got unexpected results which led him to the idea of «ethnically recognized» portraits created by the small numbers (10-15 people). Informative small samples for «ethnic recognition» O. Pavlovsky explained by the argument that these small samples create portraits were all the individual images are involved. O. Pavlovsky introduced a powerful contribution to the development of the method of composite portraits at the initial stage of the reopening of the method from nothingness.