History of Photography Podcast 8 : Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky

History of Photography Podcast by Jeff Curto

Apr 22, 2015Arts

The photographs of pioneer color photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944) give us a remarkable view into a world that is now lost – the Russian Empire just before the Russian Revolution and Worl...

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