Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Emir of Bukhara, 1911. Left are the filtered glass negatives, right is a digital colour composite by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004.
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.
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Emir of Bukhara
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1911
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