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RUSSIAN CHEMIST AND photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was one of the first to use colour photography in the early 20th century in Russia.
In 1907, the photographer decided to systematically document the Russian Empire and was given a specially-equipped railroad car darkroom by Tsar Nicholas II for the project.
To create his images, he used an oblong glass plate through three different color filters of red, green, and blue, projecting them in slides on top of one another to create a full color image.
Today, more than 2,000 of his images are preserved by the US Library of Congress. We’ve put together a collection of some of his most striking images
Source: Library of Congress
Source: Library of Congress, World Digital Library
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Source: Library of Congress, The Moscow Times
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Source: Library of Congress, Lonely Planet
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Source: Library of Congress, Euronews
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Source: Library of Congress
Source: Library of Congress
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