Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, Group of Children [Russian Empire], 1909, digital colour composite by Walt Frankhauser, 2005–2020. The blurred child furthest left can be seen turning their head toward the camera across the three negatives that formed this colour composite.
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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Group of Children [Russian Empire]
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