Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
Prokudin-Gorskii "on the Karolitskhali River" in 1912
Prokudin-Gorsky in 1906
Lithograph print of Leo Tolstoy in front of Prokudin-Gorsky's camera in Yasnaya Polyana, 1908
Crop from Alleia Hamerops showing the red, green and blue color channels as well as the composite image
Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire from 1873
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
…1,902 negatives and 710 album prints without corresponding negatives in the collection. Digital color rendering Simple, unretouched color composite of Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, 1911. At right, the original triple negative on glass, shown here in positive form. Prokudin-Gorsky photographed the upper…
Autochrome of Alim Khan during exile in Afghanistan, taken by Frédéric Gadmer in 1928
Said Mir Mohammed Alim Khan mausoleum, Kabul, Afghanistan
Alim Khan's house in Saint Petersburg