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Nov 25, 2017 · Some of Prokudin-Gorsky's negatives were given away, and some he hid on his departure. The remaining negatives—about 1,900 of them—and about 700 more album prints were purchased by the United States Library of Congress in 1948, four years after the death of Prokudin-Gorsky. An Armenian woman from Artvin in national costume.
Feb 9, 2017 · The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. In those years, photographer Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three ...
Jun 12, 2020 · “Bill Brumfield’s Journeys Through the Russian Empire is a visual and cultural tour d' force. In treading the steps of his legendary imperial predecessor Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield’s lens documents and captures why for Russia in particular the architecture and creativity of its buildings is an essential key to understanding its culture and identity, and his images provide a ...
This didn’t offer much of a window of opportunity to the chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, who had recently developed a photography process that could capture the great man of letters in “true color” — and who understood that such a portrait would score a promotional coup for his innovation.
Apr 21, 2017 · Summer 1911. / Photo: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Rostov's main architectural ensemble is its majestic kremlin, which rises above the north shore of Lake Nero. Although most of the ensemble was not ...
Jul 13, 2020 · “Bill Brumfield’s Journeys Through the Russian Empire is a visual and cultural tour d' force. In treading the steps of his legendary imperial predecessor Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Brumfield’s lens documents and captures why for Russia in particular the architecture and creativity of its buildings is an essential key to understanding its culture and identity, and his images provide a ...
This bare account was richly elaborated in a work called ‘The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan’, attributed to a priest at the Church of St. Nicholas in Zaraysk and known from 16th and 17th ...
