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Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2
1911
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Taken from the Library of Congress' website and converted from TIFF to PNG. TIFF file from LOC (archived in 2006 by WayBack Machine)
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911.
This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, green and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. In 2000, the Library of Congress scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted Walter Frankhauser to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans. Frankhauser aligned, cleaned, and color-corrected the scans of Prokudin-Gorskii's monochrome negatives to produce this image, along with others.
