Emigrant age colour photographs and films by Prokudin-Gorskii & sons

Nadezhda Stanulevich

The Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum, St. Petersburg

Russian Émigré Culture: Transcending the Borders of Countries, Languages, and Disciplines

Universität des Saarlandes, 15th November 2015

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• Biography of Prokudin-Gorskiiand his family

• History of their emigration

• Examples of colour photographs by Prokudin-Gorskii & sons

Peasant girls. 1909. Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii. Library of Congress.

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)

• 18 (30) August 1863 [Register book in Vladimirskaya guberniya Pokrovskii uyezd]

• Alexandrovskii Lyceum before 1886

• St.Petersburg University October 1886-November 1888

• Imperial Army Medical College September 1888-April 1889

• First black and white photographs no later than in summer 1892

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

First black and white photographs no later than summer 1892

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Special camera for additive colour photography process

Magic lantern of professor Miethe. Deutsches Museum, München

Adolf Miethe (1862-1927)

Prokudin-Gorskii visited A.Miethe’s laboratory in Charlottenburg no later than December 1902.

Prokudin-Gorskii’s studio was opened in 1900s.

Colour postcards based on Prokudin-Gorskii’s photo. 1905.

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Fototehnicheskoe delo. 1905.

Prokudin-Gorskii was an editor in chief of “Photographer Amateur” since 1906.

Presentation of colour photographs.

Reconstruction from film “Colour of Nation” by Leonid Parfenov, 2014.

Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia about 15th August 1918.

Гаранина С.П. Из записных книжек Прокудина-Горского // Киноведческие записки №29. 1996, С. 127-131

Production colour cinema was the main reason for leaving Russia

• 1918-1919 Norway

• 1919-1921 Great Britain

• 1921-1944 France

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Andreï Korliakov. Le Grand Exode Russe. 1917-1939.

First colour cinema made by Prokudin-Gorskii in Europe was showed in one of the London theatre on 16th March 1921.

Prokudin-Gorskii with his younger son founded company “Societé de PhotochimicElka” in Nice in 1924.

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Pens. Offset. 1928www.parisposters.com

“Gorsky”. 1930.

1932

Fléchet (Hats). 1948.Photo Gorsky-Triora

Album du Figaro 1949 N°20, Autumn, La Nouvelle Mode est née, Christian Dior, Schiaparelli

Jacques Fath (Couture) 1949 Photo Gorsky Freres

Iris. 1934.

"GENIEVRE DE L'ABBAYE“GORSKY Frères

1936

Colour printing. 1930s.

Histoire du Tour de France. 1952. Gorsky-Magny. Paris.

Tableaux PROVINCE de FRANCE.1948

Calendarier 1963. Photo Gorsky Ed.

Official description by “Gorsky Frères”

Nestlé. Commercial. 1935

1936 1937

Nestlé. Commercial.

Le Président Doumergue (1871-1931). Gorsky Frères. Illustration. 1931.

Exposition International des Arts et des Techniques. 1937

Candy tin box. 1950s. Gorsky-Magny.

Gorsky Frères. 1934.

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

Library of Congress bought collection of Prokudin-Gorskii’sphotographs in 1948.

Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine