Prokudin-Gorskii was born in 1863, and was educated as a chemist. He was fascinated with color photography, and worked along side a multitude of renown scientists, in order to advance color photographic technology. His goal was “to educate the schoolchildren of Russia with his ‘optical color projections’ of the vast and diverse history, culture, and … Continue reading Fishing for Change
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The above picture depicts a Sunni Muslim man in the early 1900’s before World War 1 began. In this time, what would later be known as the Soviet Union, was extremely diverse. Only about half of the 150 million people were ethnic Russians. Later, during forced Russification, there was not only a desire for administrative …
A Bird’s Eye View of Bukhara
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https://www.wdl.org/en/item/5808/#q=stork&qla=en This photograph, Айст «Этюд в Бухаре» or Stork “A Scene in Bukhara”, was taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii in the year 1911, a time when the Russian Empire was continuing to exert influence and expand east, especially into Central Asia. Traveling throughout Russia and equipped with a railroad car that functioned as a dark … Continue reading A Bird’s Eye View of Bukhara →
