Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Peasant Girls [Russian Empire], 1909, digital colour composite by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. Three young women offer berries to visitors of their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov.
Featured on PDR in the essay In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed Images
Archived amid Prokudin-Gorsky’s vast photographic survey of the Russian Empire, we find images shot through with starshatter cracks, blebbed with mildew, and blurred by motion. Within such moments of unmaking, Erica X Eisen uncovers the overlapping forces at play behind these pioneering efforts in colour photography.
Also appearing in the essay…
![Dinner During Haying. [Russian Empire]](https://images.pdimagearchive.org/essays/in-search-of-true-color/09-service-pnp-prokc-21700-21721v.jpeg?aspect_ratio=160:160&width=160&height=160&blur=70&quality=20)
![Piat Gratev Rock. [Chusovaia River]](https://images.pdimagearchive.org/essays/in-search-of-true-color/08service-pnp-ppem-02300-02315v.jpeg?aspect_ratio=160:160&width=160&height=160&blur=70&quality=20)
![Group of Children [Russian Empire]](https://images.pdimagearchive.org/essays/in-search-of-true-color/07-service-pnp-ppmsc-04400-04421v.jpeg?aspect_ratio=160:160&width=160&height=160&blur=70&quality=20)
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Peasant Girls [Russian Empire]
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Date
1909
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