Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19-v2.png
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A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911.
This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, yellow and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans.
This file is in the public domain; it was taken from the Library of Congress' website and converted from TIFF to PNG. Its resolution is much higher than that of Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg which it is intended to replace.
This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less.
Subject to disclaimers.
--Zantastik 02:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911. This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, yellow and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans. |
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Taken from the Library of Congress' website and converted from TIFF to PNG. TIFF file from LOC |
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress Prints and Pictures division under the digital ID prokc.21887 |
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