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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
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science · Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944) · photographer · chemist · inventor · publisher · pedagogue · teacher · traveler · also Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mihailovič Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Born 31 August 1863 · Died 27 September 1944 · Q101516
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The Library of Congress contracted with computer scientist Blaise Agüera y Arcas to produce an automated color composite of each of the 1,902 negatives from the high-resolution digital images of the glass-plate negatives
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The Library of Congress produced an exhibition from these, The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
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The negatives were digitised and the colour triples for each subject digitally combined to produce hundreds of high-quality colour images of Russia and its neighbours from over a century ago
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To make digital scans of all the photographic material received from Prokudin-Gorsky's heirs and contracted with the photographer Walter Frankhauser to combine the monochrome negatives into color images
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For $3,500–$5,000 on the initiative of a researcher inquiring into their whereabouts
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Died 1944-09-27.
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Reuniting with his first wife and children
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Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna née Schedrina
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“By fixing on light-sensitive plates the creation of artistic inspiration in all the richness of its hues, in all the charm of its color, with all the subtleties of individual talent, we convey to posterity a valuable document.”
And to Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1909
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The year before it went into commercial production
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Was elected the president of the IRTS photography section and editor of Russia's main photography journal, the Fotograf-Liubitel
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The Neue Photographische Gesellschaft established a color photography studio in Berlin
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And 1904 Sarah Angelina Acland produced the first substantial body of work in colour photography by an amateur photographer
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And was exhibiting them to the general public in 1903, when they also began to appear in periodicals and books
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Prokudin-Gorsky established a photographic studio and laboratory in Saint Petersburg
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Ives's former assistant, Edward Sanger-Shepherd, commercialized the application of the three-colour process in the "Sanger Shepherd process of natural colour photography"
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Prokudin-Gorsky married Anna Aleksandrovna Lavrova, and later the couple had two sons, Mikhail and Dmitri, and a daughter, Ekaterina
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Edward Bierstadt showcased the first successful three-color prints in the United States
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Born 1863-08-31.
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And demonstrated in 1861, but good results were not possible with the photographic materials available at that time
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