some photographs that may be of interest .....
June P. Farris
jpf3 at UCHICAGO.EDU
Fri Jun 1 12:38:18 UTC 2012
In response to the question about how the color was achieved, I contacted my LC colleagues and here is a reply from Harold Leich of LC's European Division. June Farris
Prokudin-Gorsky developed his own three-color method of color photography after studying with Adolph Miethe in Berlin. Details of how the photographs were taken and displayed are on the Library of Congress Prokudin-Gorsky exhibit site (www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire<http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire> -- this morning it seemed to be temporarily inaccessible). This exhibit, 60 selected images printed from the negatives in the collection as digitized in 1999, was on display in Washington in 2001 and traveled around Russia 2003-06. The entire collection as purchased by the Library of Congress from the photographer's sons in Paris in 1948 consists of 1,903 glass-plate three-color negatives; 14 albums of b/w contact prints with captions identifying most images; and an additional ca. 500 b/w photos without corresponding negatives. The whereabouts of an additional ca. 1,600 images that Prokudin-Gorsky claims to have taken are not known.
The Allshouse publication from 1980 produced selected images from the collection produced using pre-digital technology (described in the introduction to his book).
The most recent book-length treatments of the background and history of the collection are:
Viktor Minakhin, Dostoprimechatl'nosti Rossii v natural'nykh tsvetakh: ves' Prokudin-Gorskii, 1905-1916 (Moskva: s.n., 2003). [Text in Russian and English]
Svetlana Petrovna Garanina, Rossiiskaia imperiia Prokudina-Gorskogo, 1905-1916 (Moskva: Krasivaia strana, 2006). [Text in Russian and English]
Also good is the recent article,
Jeremy Adamson and Helena Zinkham, "The Prokudin-Gorskii Legacy: Color Photographs of the Russian Empire, 1905-1915," Comma, International Journal on Archives, 2002 no.3/4: 107-144.
There are now a number of websites in Russia on the Prokudin-Gorsky images, as the digital version of the collection has been discovered there; see especially the following:
http://www.prokudin-gorsky.org/
http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/
http://www.veinik.by/
The first site listed has produced an ongoing, very useful list of corrections, clarifications, additions etc. to the photographer's identification of a number of the images in the collection.
Questions about the collection may be directed to Harry Leich (hlei at loc.gov<mailto:hlei at loc.gov>), European Division, LC; or Verna Curtis (vcur at loc.gov), Prints & Photographs Division, LC.
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Natalie Kononenko
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] some photographs that may be of interest .....
Does anyone know how the color was achieved? Was it with the 3-colour lense method?
Natalie Kononenko
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Francoise Rosset <frosset at wheatonma.edu<mailto:frosset at wheatonma.edu>> wrote:
Dear Robert and everyone:
The Prokudin-Gorskii collection is also available, presumably in its entirety, through the Library of Congress, in a searchable site at:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
The site is called "The Empire That Was Russia"
It includes a color portrait of Lev Tolstoy.
And it doesn't necessarily provide good final versions of every photograph (such as the ones found in the article Robert sent us); often there's just a base digital image, easily enhanced.
There is also a pretty decent book out, *Photographs for the Tsar."
I bought it many many moons ago when I first started teaching, but it's probably still available.
-FR
On Thu, 31 May 2012 01:38:14 -0400
Robert Orr <colkitto at ROGERS.COM<mailto:colkitto at ROGERS.COM>> wrote:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
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