Фотографии С.М. Прокудина-Горского. Prokudin-Gorskiĭ. Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, going first to Norway and England before settling in France.
By then, the tsar and his family had been murdered and the empire that Prokudin-Gorskii so carefully documented had been destroyed. His unique images of Russia on the eve of revolution—recorded on glass plates—were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1948 from his heirs. For this exhibition, the glass plates have been scanned and, through an innovative process known as digichromatography, brilliant color images have been produced. This exhibition features a sampling of Prokudin-Gorskii's historic images produced through the new process; the digital technology that makes these superior color prints possible; and celebrates the fact that for the first time many of these wonderful images are available to the public. Born in Murom, Vladimir Province, Russia (originally believed to be St. Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii's Negatives - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
A single, narrow glass plate about 3 inches wide by 9 inches long was placed vertically into the camera by Prokudin-Gorskii .
He then photographed the same scene three times in a fairly rapid sequence using a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter. When viewed through Prokudin-Gorskii’s camera, the scene being photographed would have appeared upside down and reversed from its actual orientation. Общественный сайт Можайска и Можайского района. МОЖАЙСКАЯ губерния в фотографиях Прокудина-Горского.