Authentic Color Photographs of the Russian Empire (1904-1915) | Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky
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Russian Czar Nicholas II commissioned a photographer, one that pioneered colourized photography, to travel through the Russian Empire. With his specially equipped railway carriage, he captured the way of life and its religious buildings, infrastructure, normal people living in it and its landscapes. His name was Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Many of those photographs have been preserved, and honestly, they’re of incredible quality.
Rectification: at 3:57 what you're seeing is the moulding of an artistic casting. Kasli Iron Works. From the album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire, 1910. Not developing photographs.
US Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorsky collection: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
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Time Codes:
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky
6:43 Sergey's work after the Russian Revolution
8:07 Other early colour photographers
Sources:
Allshouse, R. H. (Ed.). (1980). Photographs for the Tsar: the pioneering colour photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II. Sidgwick & Jackson.
Brumfield, W. C. (1990). The Color Photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Visual Resources, 6(3), 243-255.
Leich, H. (2017). The Prokudin-Gorskii Collection of Early 20th Century Color Photographs of Russia at the Library of Congress: Unexpected Consequences of the Digitization of the Collection, 2000–2017. Slavic & East European Information Resources, 18(3-4), 223-230.
US Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorsky collection: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/
Photos, paintings and imagery: Public Domain, Wikicommons
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