Re: Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Images

[DENNIS@klink47.freeserve.co.uk]

Dennis there is a book of the photographs published called Photographs For
The Tsar published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1980 ISBN 0 283 98678 6
Wonderful stuff Dennis Klinker London
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From: "Dennis Southwood" <dms1@home.com>
To: "Alt-Photo-Process-L@Skyway.Usask.Ca"
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Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Prokudin-Gorskii's Color Images


> Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) created color images of
> Czarist Russia from 1907 through 1915.  Using red, green, and blue
filters,
> Prokudin-Gorskii captured black-and-white images on glass plate negatives,
> which, when projected through a filtered light system, produced a single
> color image. The Library of Congress purchased the glass plates from his
> heirs in 1948.  They have now scanned the plates and used a process they
> call digichromatography to create an exibition of color images.  The
images,
> along with an explanation of the process, is on line at
> http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html.  Amazing stuff!
>
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