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Robert Allshouse. Photographs For The Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography Of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii. An astonishing view of Old Russia just before the takeover by the Bolsheviks. Tsar Nicholas II commissioned color photographs from chemist and photographer, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944). He used three color separations for his photos inside of a railway-car darkroom, which resulted in astonishingly sharp focus and brilliant color (though some of the colors are out slightly out of register, which isn't a distraction). The chapters cover village life, rivers & waterways, churches & icons, the Ural mountains, the Caucasus, Turkestan & Samarkand. There is even a color photo of Leo Tolstoy at his estate at Yasnaya Polyana! A unique and genuine view of early 20th-century Russia, which is generally seen in black and white, or computer colorized reprints.
NY: Dial Press, 1981. 216 pages. Large format hardcover with dustjacket in protective clear book jacket cover. Some light wear to jacket, otherwise about fine. 1 copy only.
