Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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1. When was Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky born?June 2, 1863
2. When did Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky die?September 27, 1944 (age 81)
3. Where was Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky born?Staraya Russa, Russian Empire
4. What is the career?Chemist, inventor, pioneer of color photography, photographic documentarian
5. What did Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky invent that made color photography possible?He created a three‑strip color photography process that used three black‑and‑white exposures taken through red, green, and blue filters. When the three negatives were projected together, the colors of the original scene were reproduced.
6. How did Prokudin-Gorsky take color pictures before color film existed?He used a special camera that took three separate black‑and‑white photos, each with a different colored filter. By aligning and projecting these three images together, he could see the scene in color.

Additive Color Synthesis: A method of creating colors by mixing light of red, green, and blue in various proportions.
Monochrome Photography: Photography that produces images in shades of a single color, typically black and white.
Russian Revolution: A period of political and social upheaval in Russia that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Union.
Glass Plate Negatives: Early photographic plates made of glass coated with a light-sensitive emulsion, used to capture images.