Fantastic color photographs from Russia in the Early 1900’s
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
The Denver Post collected a great collection of color photographs from Russia in the early 1900′s. They were taken by Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Trans-Siberian Railway metal truss bridge on stone piers, over the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region; ca. 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
If you want to learn more about Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who owns his glass negatives after purchasing them in 1948.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/