Re:In Search of True Color: Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s Flawed ...
by atoav on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:54AM
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I have his photographs as a book, it is really like looking into another world.
Sure there are limitations of that technique, but the quality of his good pictures is so far ahead of everything else... It feels like looking at pictures of ghosts. The combination of pristine quality and motifs (e.g. russian peasants on mud roads) produces such a stark contrast in today's viewer, this alone has an interesting quality to it.
Sure there are limitations of that technique, but the quality of his good pictures is so far ahead of everything else... It feels like looking at pictures of ghosts. The combination of pristine quality and motifs (e.g. russian peasants on mud roads) produces such a stark contrast in today's viewer, this alone has an interesting quality to it.