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Feb 3, 2017 · Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographs of the ancient town of Suzdal were taken in summer 1912. Bypassed by railroad construction and with little industry, Suzdal retained a bucolic atmosphere captured ...
May 27, 2016 · The details of Prokudin-Gorsky’s life are littered with rumor and buried in the ash of empires. It’s said Prokudin-Gorsky studied with Dmitri Mendeleev during the two years (1886-1888) he ...
Introduction Lantern Projector from: Thomas Cradock Hepworth, Book of the Lantern. New York: Edward L. Wilson, 1889 Prokudin-Gorskii created his negatives by using a camera that exposed one oblong glass plate three times in rapid succession through three different color filters: blue, green, and red. For formal presentations, he printed positive glass slides of these negatives and projected ...
Translation. War and Peace at Wikisource. War and Peace ( Russian: Война и мир, romanized : Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work mixes fictional narrative with chapters discussing history and philosophy.
Only in 2002. This post is about the pioneer of colour photography, who left an incredible number of photos of cities, villages and diverse ethnical groups of the Russian Empire between 1904 and 1916. His name is Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky. Today many monuments and details of the everyday life that were documented by him do not exist anymore, but ...
William Brumfield. The Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery had a grim fate during the Napoleonic occupation of Moscow in 1812. Although many valuables had been evacuated to Yaroslavl, the monastery ...
Jul 3, 2018 · Gabriel Lippmann invented a process for color photography around 1890 that does not rely on trichromacy. It actually records the wavelengths of light falling on the apparatus. This makes it, I ...
