Captured: Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900’s

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The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.

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Those were incredible photos, and considering how old these are, even more incredible!

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this

Incredible that was a very good post. Now glass negatives? Seriously? His photos had so much history and character to them.

Thanks for posting this.

I saw these from a link on another forum...It's truly amazing what people were able to do (photographically speaking) so many years ago. When you compare these to current technology, it serves to reinforce (to me at least) the viability of older lenses & other equipement in today's digital world. I use many older manual focus lenses on my DSLR with great results. For that matter, most of the photos on my gallery were taken with 30-40 year old lenses...

Screamin Scott wrote: I saw these from a link on another forum...It's truly amazing what people were able to do (photographically speaking) so many years ago. When you compare these to current technology, it serves to reinforce (to me at least) the viability of older lenses & other equipement in today's digital world. I use many older manual focus lenses on my DSLR with great results. For that matter, most of the photos on my gallery were taken with 30-40 year old lenses...

I agree with Scott, truly amazing what they did so long ago with the cameras back then.

Thankyou for posting this, it's rare to see color photos from this era, let alone an entire collection like this.

Impressive

Silvrwhls1 wrote: Click the link below for photos and descriptions.... enjoy

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.

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I saw these a few months back karl, looked at them again now. Unbelievable photos.

Scotty wrote:

Silvrwhls1 wrote: Click the link below for photos and descriptions.... enjoy

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.

www.stumbleupon.com/su/1XrnE2/blogs.denv...ent-page-4/r:f[url=h

I saw these a few months back karl, looked at them again now. Unbelievable photos.

I've seen them a few times myself, hard to believe how old these are.

Those were stunning photographs