Portrait, 1906

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (in Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский), (1863-1944), Russian photographer who pioneered color photography.

Main article about him is found at English wikipedia: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

The existing collection of colour pictures by Prokudin-Gorskii consists of 1,902 photographs, bought from his family by the Library of Congress in 1948. The whole collection of unrestored pictures can be seen at www.prokudin-gorsky.ru, although most of them currently only exist as thumbnails, while some of the 122 that were restored by Library of Congress for its 2000 exhibition can be seen at The Empire That Was Russia.

It is estimated that Prokudin-Gorskii took over 3,500 triple negatives but there are currently only two more known pictures preserved, both of them of his daughter Helene and taken as late as 1934. Those two are still owned by his family.





English: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (, Murom, Russian Empire – September 27, 1944, Paris, France) was a Russian (, Murom, Russian Empire – September 27, 1944, Paris, France) was a Russian chemist and photographer . He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography of early 20th-century Russia. (→ Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Italiano: Prokudin-Gorskij nacque da una nobile famiglia di San Pietroburgo, compì i suoi studi presso il prestigioso liceo Aleksandr per poi laurearsi in Prokudin-Gorskij nacque da una nobile famiglia di San Pietroburgo, compì i suoi studi presso il prestigioso liceo Aleksandr per poi laurearsi in ingegneria chimica presso l'istituto tecnico della città. Studiò anche con Dmitrij Mendeleev , l'inventore della tavola periodica degli elementi. Mendeleev era anche un sostenitore della fotografia come mezzo di diffusione dell'arte in Russia e fondò intorno al 1875 una società di fotografia a San Pietroburgo, questo chiaramente influenzò il giovane Prokudin-Gorskij che prese lezioni di violino presso il conservatorio e seguì un corso di pittura presso l'istituto imperiale d'arte. (→ Sergej Michajlovič Prokudin-Gorskij





Colour Photos [ edit ]

Items in Saint Petersburg's Hermitage [ edit ]

Etruscan pottery

Black and white pictures [ edit ]