The vivid colors of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s photos bring the vast Russian Empire of the early 1900s to life timesca.com/the-photogra... #ProkudinGorsky #RussianEmpire #HistoricalPhotography #Early1900s #PhotographyLovers #VintagePhotography #CentralAsia

The Photographs of Prokudin-Go...

The vivid colors of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s photos bring the vast Russian Empire of the early 1900s to life https://timesca.com/the-photographs-of-prokudin-gorsky-a-glimpse-of-a-lost-world/ #ProkudinGorsky #RussianEmpire #HistoricalPhotography #Early1900s #PhotographyLovers #VintagePhotography #CentralAsia

"In Search of True Color - Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images."

Archived amid Prokudin-Gorsky’s vast photographic survey of the Russian Empire, we find images shot through with starshatter cracks, blebbed with mildew, and blurred by motion. Within such moments of unmaking, Erica X Eisen uncovers the overlapping forces at play behind these pioneering efforts in colour photography.

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