Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii prezinta Rusia asa cum era ea in ajunul Primului Razboi Mondial.Intre 1909-1912 si din nou in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii a calatorit prin tot Imperiul Rus documentand viata, peisajele si munca rusilor. Imaginile lui sunt adevarate file din istorie. Fotografiile erau in alb – negru, dar el a dezvoltat o tehnica ingenioasa care ii permitea sa reproduca imaginile in culorile reale. A realizat asta cu o camera de fotografiat inteligenta, creata de el insusi, care facea trei fotografii negre apoi alte trei albe in secvente rapide, iar printr-un filtru special iesea o singura fotografie in diferite culori. Fotografia continea trei imagini diferite in trei culori, produsul final fiind o fotografie in culori clare. Sergei a reusit sa foloseasca un proiector cu care putea vedea pe un ecran toate cele trei imagini care se suprapuneau pina la culoarea finala.

Here is Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ himself (on the right) sitting with two men in Cossak dress.

 

Four people sit on a carpet in front of a backdrop of textiles.

 

An Armenian woman in what is now present-day Turkey.

 

A man sits on the ground next to his camel loaded with packs.

 

Men work on iron casts in this factory.

 

A camel caravan carries thorns for fodder in what is now Uzbekistan.

 

A chapel in the town of Belozersk.

 

A view of Tiflis, Georgia.

 

A Khan sitting in what is now Uzbekistan.

 

A young boy near the Sim River in Russia.

 

Alternators in a factory in modern-day Turkmenistan.

 

A woman wearing traditional dress poses for a photograph.

 

A group of women in Dagestan pose for Prokudin-Gorskiĭ in Russia.

 

A.P. Kalganov poses with his son and granddaughter at the Zlatoust arms plant.

 

Supervisor of the Chernigov floodgate poses on a raft.

 

View of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral.

 

A group of children learning in a Russian street.

 

A group of men eat at an open-air restaurant in modern-day Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

 

A woman in a purdah waits outside a doorway in Russia.

 

A Muslim teacher with his female students near the Artomelinskaia mosque in Artvin, modern-day Turkey.

 

The wharf at Mezhevaya Utka in Russia.

 

Workers take a break from harvesting hay in Russia.

 

Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov.

 

Workers on the Murmansk railway in Russia.

 

A water carrier poses for Prokudin-Gorskiĭ in the street.

 

A factory in Kyn, Russia.

 

Men working in a packing section of a mineral water warehouse in Borzhom.

 

Children sit near a church on White Lake in Russia.

 

The Emir of Bukhara holds a sword in Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan.

 

Part of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia.

 

Workers outside the mechanical shops for the finishing of artistic castings in Russia.

 

Nomadic Kirghiz, a Turkic people, in Russia.

 

A man and woman in Dagestan pose for the photographer.

 

A boy sits next to a mosque in present-day Uzbekistan.

 

And a family, with shovels and horse-drawn carts, works at the iron mines in the Bakaly hills.

Sursa: AICI