Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, photographer 1863-1944
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian photographer, pioneer of color photography. He used a camera that took a series of three monochrome pictures in sequence, each through a different-colored filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly colored light, it was possible to reconstruct the original color scene. Any stray movement within the camera's field of view showed up in the prints as multiple "ghosted" images, since the red, green and blue images were taken of the subject at slightly different times.
Self-portrait on the Karolitskhali River, ca. 1910. Prokudin-Gorskii in suit and hat, seated on rock beside the Karolitskhali River, in the Caucasus Mountains near the seaport of Batumi on the eastern coast of the Black Sea
Le photographe s’appelle Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, il était chimiste et inventeur d’un procédé de photographie en couleur qui en a fait le pionnier en cette matière .
Although his main job (Demidov House) was located in St. Petersburg, Prokudin-Gorsky settled in Gatchina, where his three children were born Dmitry (1892), Catherine (1893) and Michael (1895).
C’est à ce titre qu’il fut engagé par le Tsar Nicolas II pour en devenir le photographe officiel, et le Tsar, qui n’était en mesure de sillonner l’immense l’Empire Russe du temps, lui a offert tous les moyens ( train particulier , instruments photographiques..) pour lui permettre de voyager librement de la Baltique au Pacifique et dans tous les recoins de l’Empire.
Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana 1908
C’est ainsi que, de 1905 à 1917, Prokudin-Gorski a ramené de ses voyages des milliers de plaques photographiques sur les villes , les campagnes , les peuples au travail, les églises, les créations artistiques et industrielles de l’Empire (notamment les photos de Tolstoi) revélant sa marche vers le progrès avant que le bolchevisme n’amène avec ses massacres, ses goulags etc la misère et la régression que nous savons …
La révolution de 1917 et le guerre civile ont chassé Prokudin de Russie et c’est en passant par le Norvège puis l’Angleterre, qu'il est venu se réfugier en France non sans emporter des caisses pleines des milliers de plaques photographiques qu’il avait réalisées.
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: Spinning yarn in the village of Izvedovo, 1910
Il a vécu pauvre et malade en France de 1921 à Aout 1944, ignoré de nous et reconnu seulement par la communauté des réfugiés russes.
Juste après la guerre la Américains, plus malins que nous, on racheté à sa famille toute la collection de ces plaques pour en faire un des trésors de la Librairie du Congrès ( Librairie de la Chambre des Députés U.S), quand à Prokudin –Gorski il repose chez nous dans le cimetière russe de Sainte Geneviève des Bois .
Habituée que j’étais à ne voir la Russie de cette époque qu’à travers les lugubres clichés noir et blancs que nous en donnait la propagande bolchévique, la première fois que j’ai découvert les clichés de Prokudin-Gorski j’ai été suffoqué devant leur beauté et non moins devant la beauté ignorée de ce pays qu’il nous découvrait .
Et si je peux me permettre une suggestion après la magnifique présentation que vous venez de faire du Tsar Nicolas II et de sa famille, je trouverais juste et bon de présenter cette Russie méconnue d’avant la révolution que les photos de Prokudin-Gorski nous ont léguée .
Vous trouverea tous les documents ici :
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF S. M. PROKUDIN-GORSKY
S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky is much more than just a talented scientist-inventor or an outstanding photographer, he is the author of the true miracle that will never cease to amaze people.
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Sergueï Prokoudine-Gorski
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EXPOSITION RÉCENTE DES PHOTOS DE PROKUDIN-GORSKI A LA LIBRAIRIE DU CONGRÈS :
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
Group (Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ (R) and two men in Cossak dress (?) seated on the ground). Russia, Arkhangelsk province, Kem' uyezd (district), Nadvoitsy village and outskirts, 1916.
City of Aleksandrov. General view of Trinity Monastery. Russia, Vladimir Province, Alexander County, Alexandrov, 1911.
Corner of the Likanskii Palace 1910
Corner of a Dacha 1910
City of Aleksandrov 1910
Razsoshka River, flowing into the Chusovaia River at the village of Verkhnie Gorodki. Russia, Perm Province, Perm uyezd (district), Verkhnie Gorodki (submerged), 1912.
Fishing Settlement 1915
Этюд на речке Кумса / At the river Kumsa - 1915
Village of Rodina (Chusovaia River). Russia, Perm Province, Kungur uyezd (district), Rodina (uninhabited), 1912.
General view of the Zlatoust plant and Trinity Cathedral. Russia, Ufa Province, Zlatoust uyezd (district), Zlatoust town, September 1909.
View from the bell tower of the Trinity cathedral (of the Trinity Monastery) on Cathedral Square in Belgorod, during the celebration of the canonization of Ioasaf of Belgorod, September 4, 1911. Russia, Kursk province, Belgorod town.
Chapel from the time of Peter the Great (1672–1725), near Kivach waterfall. Russia, Olonets province, Petrozavodsk uyezd (district), Kivach, 1916.
Fly agaric (“Among the moss”). Russian Empire, Grand Duchy of Finland, Place unknown. Between 1903 and 1904.
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: Church of the Holy Mother of God, Tobolsk, Russia, 1912
A. P. Kalganov with his Son and Granddaughter 1910
A. P. Kalganov poses with his son and granddaughter for a portrait in the industrial town of Zlatoust in the Ural Mountain region of Russia. The son and granddaughter are employed at the Zlatoust Arms Plant--a major supplier of armaments to the Russian military since the early 1800s. Kalganov displays traditional Russian dress and beard styles, while the two younger generations have more Westernized, modern dress and hair styles.
View of Suzdal from the bell tower of the Rizpolozhenskii. Russia, Vladimir Province, County Suzdal, Suzdal, 1912.
View of the railroad, city of Vladimir, Kliazma River, and water-meadows, 1911.
View of the city of Tobolsk from Assumption Cathedral from the northwest. Russia, Tobolsk Province, Tobolsk uyezd (district), Tobolsk town, 1912.
Suburb of the city of Perm called Razgulyai 1910
Chapel for water blessing, in the village of Deviatiny. Russia, Olonets province, Vytegra county, Deviatiny, 1909.
View of Tver with bridge across Volga. Russia, Tver province, Tver, 1910.
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: View of Suzdal along the Kamenka River, 1912
View of Kasli. Russia, Perm Province, Yekaterinburg uyezd (district), Kasli town, 1909.
Austrian prisoners of war near a barrack. Russia, Olonets province, Petrozavodsk uyezd (district), Kivach station, 1916.
Russian children sitting on the side of a hill near a church and bell tower in the countryside near White Lake, in the north of European Russia. The picture was taken at the church in the background Pyatnitskaya Belozersk (not preserved). Novgorod Province, White Lake County, 1909.
Village of Kolchedan. Russia, Perm Province, Kamyshlov uyezd (district), Kolchedanskoe village, 1912.
On the Sim River near the Asha-Balashovskii Station. Russia, Ufa Province, Ufa uyezd (district), Asha town, 1910.
Sergueï Mikhaïlovitch Prokoudine-Gorski Prononciation (en russe : Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский), né le 30 août 1863 à Founikova Gora (gouvernement de Vladimir, Empire russe) et mort le 27 septembre 1944 à Paris (France), a consacré sa carrière de chimiste puis de photographe à la photographie couleur. Il a laissé un témoignage unique sur la Russie du début du XXe siècle.
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Boris-Gleb Monastery, from the bridge. Russia, the Tver province, Torzhok, 1910.Boris and Gleb Monastery, from the Bridge
Boris and Gleb Monastery 1910
City of Rzhev. Prince Fedor's side (of the city) with the Holy Protectoress Mother of God Church. Russia, the Tver province, Rzhev, 1910.
Cemetery Church of the Exaltation of the Cross. Russia, Tver Province, Ostashkov county, Ostashkov, 1910.
Rampart near the Boris-Gleb Monastery. Russia, the Tver province, Torzhok, 1910.
Site of the source of the Western Dvina near the village of Kariakino three versts from Lake Peno in Tver Province, Ostashkov District. Volga River Region, 1910.
1909
A woman is seated in a calm spot on the Sim River, part of
the Volga watershed in 1910
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky / Monastery haying, Leushinsky Monastery, 1909
Windmill. Russia, Novgorod province, county Cherepovets, Leushino and vicinity (now flooded), 1909.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - View of the Kremlin in Rostov from the Bank of Lake Nero, 1911 (LOC).
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky / Forming art castings. Kasli, 1910
View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910
Vitebsk. Part of the city with the Western Dvina. Russia, Vitebsk Province, Vitebsk, 1912.
Village of Deviatiny and the Saint Boris dam. Russia, Olonets province, Vytegra county, Deviatiny, 1909.
Hotel of A. G. Barskov (formerly of Fedukhin-Pozharskii). Russia, Tver province, Torzhok town, 1910.
Fishing settlement (Village of Soroka. Zosima and Savvatiy church). Russia, Arkhangelsk province, Kem' uyezd (district), Soroka village, 1916.
Riazan. The Trubezh River and the Cathedral of Christ's Nativity. Russia, Ryazan Province, Ryazan, 1912.
Staritsa. View from the Cathedral of Sts. Boris and Gleb. Russia, Tver province, Staritsa uyezd (district), Staritsa town, 1910.
Riazan. General view from the bell tower of Assumption Cathedral from the northwest. Russia, Ryazan Province, Ryazan, 1912.
Avraamievskii Monastery. Russia, Smolensk Province, Smolensk, 1912.
Mugan. Settler's family. Settlement of Grafovka, Baku province, 1912
Tea factory in Chakva. Chinese foreman Lau-Dzhen-Dzhau. Russia, Kutaisi province, Batumi District, Chakva, 1912.
Distributing of mineral water. Borzhom (Men pushing carts laden with bottles while others stand and watch; to the side are bundles of packed bottles). Russia, Tiflis province, Gori district, Borjomi, 1912
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky / At the stubble-field, 1909
Log sawing. Kuzminskoe village along the Oka River. 1912 // His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and work of Russia's diverse population.
Fishing settlements on Lake Seliger. 1910 // Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky finally settled in Paris in 1922. He set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children.
Fisherman on the Iset River, Ural mountains. 1910 // Photographs of Prokudin-Gorsky offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming Russian Revolution.
Haying at the Leushinskii Monastery. Russia, Novgorod Province, Cherepovets uyezd (district), Leushino village area (now submerged), 1909.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky / Ostrecheny, 1909
General view of the Nikolaevskii Cathedral from southwest in Mozhaisk in 1911.
Cathedral of Nicholas, the Wonderworker
Russian Orthodox
Mozhaisk, Moscow Oblast
Russia
The cathedral, built in 1814, in Mozhaisk, west of Moscow, was badly damaged by Nazi troops, losing the central dome. During the Soviet period the building was used as a factory. The cathedral incorporates an older gate church.
Photo: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, ca. 1915
Used by permission Digichromatography
General view of the wharf at Mezhevaya Utka, 1912.
An Armenian woman in national costume poses for Prokudin-Gorskii on a hillside near Artvin
(in present day Turkey), circa 1910
Pinkhus Karlinsky, Supervisor of the Chernigov Floodgate, 84 years. 1909
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Cementing the Foundation of a Sluice Dam 1912 |
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General view of City of Perm, 1910
View of Tiflis (Tblisi), Georgia from the grounds of Saint David Church, ca. 1910
Bashkir switchman (near Ust-Katav station). Russia, Ufa Province, Zlatoust uyezd (district), Ust-Katavsky Zavod area, 1910.
Mechanical shops for the finishing of artistic castings (Kasli Iron Works). Russia, Perm Province, Yekaterinburg uyezd (district), Kasli town, 1909.
A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain
At the Black Sea Shore 1910
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: Solovetskii monastery, Solovetski Islands, Russia, 1915
Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan (Eloten), Turkmenistan, on the Murghab River, ca. 1910. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #
Borzhomi is a small town in the Caucasus Mountains in the interior of what is now the Republic of Georgia. Noted for its mineral waters, it was a fashionable spa at the end of the nineteenth century. Shown here are elegantly dressed visitors posing for a photograph by the Ekaterinin, ("Catherine's") Spring.
Photographed in c 1907-1915 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
The confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers in the Russian Empire. Photograpy by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1912. View full size
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: Study near the Kivach waterfall, Suna River, Kareliya, Russia, 1915
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii: Village of Kolchedan, 1912
Cornflowers in a field of rye, 1909. From the album "Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire". (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC) #
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Nomadic Kazakhz on the Steppe 1911
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915.
Cotton Field in Sukhumi Botanical Garden 1911
Peasant hut in the village of Martianova (Chusovaia River). Russia, Perm Province, Kungur uyezd (district), Martianovo village, 1912.
In Little Russia (near Putivl in Kursk Province), between 1904 and 1905.
Trinity Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Monastery. Russia, Kursk province, Belgorod town, September 1911.
Peasants harvesting hay in 1909. From the album "Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire".
Autumn - Landscape near Gorki 1911
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky / At the stubble-field, 1909
Monks at work (Gethsemane Monastery). Planting potatoes. Russia, Tver Province, Ostashkov County, Isle of Gorodomlya, 1910.
At harvest time. 1909 // After the October Revolution, Prokudin-Gorsky was appointed to a new professorship under the new regime, but he left Soviet Russia in August 1918.
Woodcutters on the Svir River. Russia, Olonets province, county Vytegra, 1909.
On the road (near Simskaya staton). Russia, Ufa Province, Ufa uyezd (district), Simskaya station area, 1910.
Hut of settler Artemii, nicknamed Kota, who has lived at this place more than 40 years. Russia, Perm Krai, Yekaterinburg uyezd (district), 1912.
Tajik Man 1911
Factory in Kyn, Russia, belonging to Count S.A. Stroganov, 1912
Group of railroad construction participants (on the pier in Kem-Pristan). Russia, Arkhangelsk province, Kem' uyezd (district), Kem town area, 1915.
Baling machine for hay. Russia, Olonets province, Petrozavodsk uyezd (district), Kivach station, 1916.
Assumption Cathedral in the Goritskii Monastery, near Pereiaslavl-Zalesskii; 1911 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
Church of the Resurrection in the Grove (from the other side), Kostroma; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection
Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God 1909
Church in Vetluga 1910
1910, Old church of Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker, Nyrob
The Cotton Industry:
Cotton mill interior, probably in Tashkent, 1905-15
Blast furnaces at the Satkinskii factory 1910.Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire - 1910
Tea factory in Chakva. Tubs and baskets with fragrant tea - 1910
Cotton textile mill interior, probably in Tashkent, 1905-15 -
Cotton textile mill interior, probably in Tashkent, 1905-15 -
Steam room for treatment of bamboo. Chakva.
Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire -
General Industry:
Sacks stacked in storage room, pulley system
machinery mounted along wall 1905-15
The steam room for the treatment of bamboo, taken at Chakva.
Part of the "Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire."
series.
Heavy Industry :
Settlements of workers of Verkh-Isetsky factory
near the city of Ekaterinburg
1910. Taken from "Views in the Ural Mountains,
survey of industrial area, Russian Empire" series.
Molding shop at the Kasli plant 1910. Taken from
"Views in the Ural Mountains,
survey of industrial area, Russian Empire"Tea Production:
Weighing section at the Chakva Tea Factory,
taken sometime between 1905-15.
Chakva Tea Factory, Tubs and baskets with fragrant tea.
Tea factory in Chakva. Sorting section.Sword Making:
Joining shop for the production of scabbards
at the Zlatoust plant 1910.
Weapons cabinet in the Arsenal Museum of the Zlatoust plant 1910.
Taken from "Views in the Ural Mountains,
survey of industrial area, Russian Empire"Power Production:
Machine department on the Oka River 1912,
"Views along the Oka River and Suzdal, Russian Empire"
Alternators, in the power generating hall of an hydroelectric station
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Cotton mill interior, probably in Tashkent, 1905-15
Chakva Tea Factory, Tubs and baskets with fragrant tea.
Tea factory in Chakva. Sorting section.
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