segunda-feira, maio 21, 2012


You’ve seen already some sets of photos by a famous Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky: 1, 2, 3. These are some close up views reavealing new details definitely deserve your attention.
On the photo fragment above: “On the river Sim at the station Ashi-Balashovskaya”, 1910. Looks like a painting!






Fragment of the photo “Floodgate on the third verst from Shlisselburg”, 1909. Boat “Zarya” by which Prokudin-Gorsky travelled along the Staroladozhsky canal.

Fragment of the photo “The main building of the monastery” Nilova pustyn”, 1910

Fragment of the photo “The mill near Luga”, 1905. By the way this mill served as a power plant as well!

Peasant farm in Putivl, the Kursk province, 1904 or 1905

Once in Torzhok. Fragment of a no-name photo dated 1910

Gagra guns, 1912

Port of Sukhumi, 1912

Street in Vitebsk, 1912

View at the Vitebsk town hall and the river Vitba, 1912.

Embankment in Lugano, 1908

Khrustalnaya station, 1912

Tearoom in Samarkand, 1911

Fragment of the photo: “Cable way from the Heavy Mine”, 1910

Bridge over the river Shuya, 1916