# Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2

- By: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
- Date: 1911
- Classification: Photograph
- 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)
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/1/1f/Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png/1920px-Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.