Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1905/1915, The photographer sitting by the Karolitskhali River, Tri-color separation negatives, modern digital color composite, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/11715

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Other: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Other: Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii
Other: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

Born: 1863 - Russia
Died: 1943
Gender: Male
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Russian color photography pioneer inventer - he used digichromatography, an astonishing three-color separation system (one glass plate negative, three frames). He traveled widely within Russia from 1905 onwards and took color photographs during the First World War.
 
There is widely held confusion about the contributions of Prokudin-Gorskii and whether he was actually an inventor or used the techniques that he learnt from Adolf Miethe in Germany.

Genealogy of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

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