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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Проку́дин-Го́рский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj] ⓘ; August 30 [ O.S. August 18] 1863 – September 27, 1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour ...
- September 27, 1944 (aged 81), Paris, France
- Early techniques for taking colour photographs
In the summer of 1909, Prokudin-Gorsky traveled along this waterway and produced a rich collection of images. Especially significant is the work that he did in the small town of Belozersk ...
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Prokudin-Gorsky visited Solovki in the summer of 1916 as World War I raged in Europe. The Prokudin-Gorsky Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC contains 20 photographs that he ...
Nov 25, 2017 · Around 1905, Prokudin-Gorsky envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advances in color photography to document the Russian Empire systematically. Tsar Nicholas II granted him permits that allowed him to travel unmolested across restricted areas and instructed the empire's bureaucracy to cooperate with the photographer.
Prokudin-Gorsky’s photographs of the monastery in 1916 were among the last views of the remarkable ensemble before the cataclysm of revolution and civil war. Even though it has survived only in ...
Apr 17, 2018 · Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, born in Russia in 1863, spent his life photographing the people of the Russian Empire (mostly in color). Perhaps his most easily-recognizable work is that of that of the great novelist Leo Tolstoy, but what I think is far more interesting is the lengthy series of color photographs he took, on assignment from Tsar ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Prokudin-Gorsky found his way to Paris by 1920 and spent most of the rest of his life in France. A month after the August 1944 liberation of Paris, he died. In 1948, four years after Prokudin-Gorsky’s death, his heirs sold what remained of his collection to the Library of Congress.
