Comments on: The Amazing Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

By: Ian Moir

Ian Moir — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:55:31 +0000

I saw the exhibit at The Russian Musuem of Art… It is absolutely stellar… My parents visited the Samakand and Tashkent region in the early 1970s. I printed a small selection of the images for them for Christmas – They were stunned and in absolute awe!

So wonderful that LOC is able to share these withthe world!

By: Jiah

Jiah — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:05:09 +0000

Not only a cool technique but also well composed. I really like the upright postures vs the slanted backgrounds.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:10:45 +0000

Larry: Hilarious!

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Bookmarks for September 3rd through September 11th « Daniel Nisbet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:07:00 +0000

[...] Mike Davidson – The Amazing Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii – woah, colour photography – in 1911! Essentially, three separate shots are taken, each with a different color filter over the lens: one red, one blue, and one green. The shots are then composited to form incredibly lifelike color portraits. [...]

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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:42:59 +0000

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By: Larry Sawyer

Larry Sawyer — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:50:20 +0000

That’s really cool. It really does look like the colors were just over saturated a little in Photoshop.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes comics:

Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?

Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just that the world was black and white then. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?

Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Calvin: But… But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?

Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the ’30s.

Calvin: So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?

Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:56:32 +0000

Nice find! Thanks for sharing.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:23:00 +0000

I remember watching the Thanksgiving parade at my Grandmothers house in color … blue cellophane on the top third, green on the bottom … it was a special treat she claimed …

By: Justin Thorp

Justin Thorp — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:24:36 +0000

It’s definitely one of my favorite collections at the LOC.