Rusia Ortodoxa

The creation of color photographs in the early 1900’s was technically and logistically complex. To create color images, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii separated out primary colors, using filters, to record three black-and-white images on a glass plate. His plates themselves show no color, but consist of a series of three black and white images, one below the other on the 9-inch long, narrow plate.