Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: "Pioneer of Color Photo"

Before readers, the creative path of the outstanding Russian inventor and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) is spread. The descendant of the ancient noble family, since childhood, was distinguished by a variety of hobbies, and in the history of technology it entered as a specialist who brought to the extent of practical implementation the method of color bromberry photography, based on the principle of color excretion. The prints obtained by Prokudin-Gorsky are now amazing with high resolution and accurate transmission of shades.
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky until the last days of the existence of the Russian Empire worked hard on improving his method and stopped a step from creating color cinema.
The most amazing thing is that Sergei Mikhailovich not only developed the composition of a photosensitive emulsion for photographic plasters and not only created the design of a camera available to the mass consumer. Understanding the value of the method at his disposal, he takes an unprecedented project in his coverage - to capture in the color of outstanding compatriots, sights and landscapes of the Russian Empire. Thanks to Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, we can, with the help of the Internet, see Russia that we have lost and, most likely, will not return