Early Color Image by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii
Using emerging technological advances in color photography, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) made numerous photographic trips to systematically document the Russian Empire. He conducted most of his visual surveys between 1909 and 1915, although some of his work dates as early as 1905. Library of Congress
Did you see the engineer in the picture:
Look closely, he really is there
More background info:
taken abt. 1910
Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944, photographer.
The railcar in the background is thought to be Prokudin-Gorskii’s traveling photographic laboratory and living quarters.
album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04424
Prokudin-Gorskii created his negatives by using a camera that exposed one oblong glass plate three times in rapid succession through three different color filters: blue, green, and red. For formal presentations, he printed positive glass slides of these negatives and projected them through a triple lens magic lantern. Prokudin-Gorskii would project the slide through the three lenses, and, with the use of color filters, superimpose the three exposures to form a full color image on a screen. lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/prokhtml/prokcolor.html
March 1st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Funny, just seeing the picture and not having read the post yet, my first impression was how cool the coloring was in the photo! And no, my untrained eyes would not have seen that engineer without your help. You may have to do a kind of “Where’s Waldo” contest on here sometime and see if everyone can find something in a picture and then post the answer in a future post.
March 4th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Great shot and if you had not of mentioned the guy O most likely would have missed him.