You are cordially invited to exhibition in museum Šechtl and Voseèek on:
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
A Selection from the Collection
"The Splendors of Russia in Natural Color"
- Color Photographs from the Years 1905-1916.
The Exhibition will be opened at 5:00 pm, 28th February, 2006, by Lynn E. Brooks, Head (retired) of Digital Scan Center, U. S. Library of Congress, Viktor Minachin, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Pavel Scheufler, historian of photography.
The Exhibition will be open, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, Sunday to Friday, until the end of April, 2006.
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) devoted his life to the advancement of color photography technology. Three-color process was based on taking three monochrome pictures, each through a different colored filter (red, green and blue). By projecting the three positive images with a three-color projector with red, green, and blue lights, and using prisms to superimpose the three images on a white wall, it was possible to reconstruct the scene in its original colors. In 1905, Prokudin-Gorskii received a grant from Tsar Nicholas II to systematically document the Russian Empire using color photography. He continued this project until 1915, when his specially-fitted railway car was needed for World War I. After the Tsar and his family were assassinated in 1918, Prokudin-Gorskii emigrated from Russia to Paris. The result of his 10 year effort was a unique collection of nearly two thousand color photographs. The collection is now located in the U.S. Library of Congress, and is the largest collection of three-color photography in the world. Apart from when the pictures were originally shown in Russia, this will be the first time the collection has been exhibited in Europe.
http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz and http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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