Sergey ProkudinGorsky Google Doodle

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Google honors Sergei Prokudin-Gorski (1863- 1944). He was a russian pioneer in color photography. Google celebrates his 155th birthday. • Here is what Google says about it: In today’s smartphone era, many people carry the equipment needed to create a color photograph in their pockets. But at the start of the 20th century, photography was a much more complicated process. Between 1909 and 1915 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled through Russia in a railroad car specially equipped with a mobile darkroom to document Russian life using a technique he called ”optical color projection.” • Born in Murom, Vladimir Province, Russia, on this day in 1863, Prokudin-Gorsky was a chemist who became interested in photography. He traveled to Germany to study with Adolf Miethe, a pioneer of the color separation method, and soon developed his own formulation for photographic emulsion so he could create life-like photos in natural colors. His portrait of the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy was widely reproduced, bringing Prokudin-Gorsky a measure of fame. As a result, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to sponsor his ambitious project. • Prokudin-Gorsky’s images of people, landscapes, architecture, historic sites, industry, and agriculture were created by exposing three glass plates through three different color filters—green, red and blue—and then combining them to create a composite color image-a technique displayed in today’s animated Doodle. He captured thousands of images that offer a rare glimpse of Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution and First World War. • Prokudin-Gorsky planned to use the resulting photos to educate Russian school children about their vast country. Today,his body of work is preserved on thousands of glass plates, which are prized by historians and scholars. • Happy Birthday Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky! • Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints Photographs Division, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, LC-DIG-prokc-20829 • Source: https://www.google.com/doodles/sergey... • Wikipedia about him: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia. [...] • The method of color photography used by Prokudin-Gorsky was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855 and demonstrated in 1861, but good results were not possible with the photographic materials available at that time. In imitation of the way a normal human eye senses color, the visible spectrum of colors was divided into three channels of information by capturing it in the form of three black-and-white photographs, one taken through a red filter, one through a green filter, and one through a blue filter. The resulting three photographs could either be projected through filters of the same colors and exactly superimposed on a screen, synthesizing the original range of color additively; viewed as an additive color image by one person at a time through an optical device known generically as a chromoscope or photochromoscope, which contained colored filters and transparent reflectors that visually combined the three into one full-color image; or used to make photographic or mechanical prints in the complementary colors cyan, magenta and yellow, which, when superimposed, reconstituted the color subtractively. • Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_... • See more of his color photographys in Google image search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Serge... • More about the principle of the human eyes (Three color-principle : https://www.brillen-sehhilfen.de/auge... (german) • Music: Olde Timey by Kevin MacLeod • Сергей Прокудин-Горский Сергей Прокудин-Горский Сергей Прокудин-Горский Сергей Прокудин-Горский Сергей Прокудин-Горский • #googledoodle #photography

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