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Photographer | Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii |
In 1909, Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in colour on behalf of Czar Nicholas II.
One of the early pioneers of colour photography, he systematically documented the vast empire with the unprecedented technique he had developed - a method in which he used colour-sensitive glass plates - decades before the widespread availability of colour film....