Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii

[J.W.]

Ottawa (Canada), Monday 17/10/05 22h45 EDT

In reference to Peter Morley's enquiry about Prokudin-Gorskii, I might
reproduce an excerpt from my posting on SEELANGS of 24 May 2004, for the
benefit of Mr Morley and any others that might have missed it:

     >...one of my prized possessions is a book of his colour
     photographs presented to me by a Russian friend about 20 years
     ago.  I believe this may be the subject of enquiry in several
     postings today (which I have just now received in digest
     format).

     >The book is entitled "Photographs for the Tsar -- the
     pioneering color photography of Sergei Mikhailovich
     Prokudin-Gorskii, commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II".  It is
     edited, with an introduction by Robert H. Allshouse and an
     Afterword (explaining the colour process) by Arthur Goldsmith;
     published in New York by The Dial Press in 1980.  Publisher's
     address:  1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY USA 10017.
     ISBN: 0-8037-6996-2.  It is a coffee-table format book with
     216 glossy pages, with a multitude of beautiful (mostly colour
     & a few black-and-white) photographs taken by
     Prokudin-Gorskij.  I was always impressed at how superior the
     colour photography was to the early colour reproductions we
     are all familiar with from the mid-20th century.  The book
     includes his famous Tolstoy colour photo (p. 33) -- the one
     that appeared so often in Soviet publications but seldom
     credited to its author.<

It appears that Amazon is currently offering a number of used copies of
this book in its paperback edition.  See:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385279272/webmill0c8-20/ref%3Dnosim/102-7022414-8603347

Sincerely,

(Mr) John Woodsworth
Certified Translator (Russian-English)
Website: http://jw.deepspace93.com/


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