Presentation. International Conference “Russian Émigré Culture: Transcending the Borders of Countries, Languages and Disciplines”, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, November 12-15, 2015

1. Emigrant age colour photographs and
films by Prokudin-Gorskii & sons
Nadezhda Stanulevich
The Russian Academy of Fine Arts Museum, St. Petersburg
Russian Émigré Culture: Transcending the Borders of Countries,
Languages, and Disciplines
Universität des Saarlandes, 15th November 2015

2. Images from International web-project “The Heritage of Sergey
Prokudin-Gorskii” will be marked by logo
• Biography of Prokudin-Gorskii
and his family
• History of their emigration
• Examples of colour photographs
by Prokudin-Gorskii & sons

3. Peasant girls. 1909. Sergey Prokudin-Gorskii. Library of Congress.

4. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)
• 18 (30) August 1863 [Register book in
Vladimirskaya guberniya Pokrovskii uyezd]
• Alexandrovskii Lyceum before 1886
• St.Petersburg University October 1886-November
1888
• Imperial Army Medical College September 1888-
April 1889
• First black and white photographs no later than in
summer 1892

5. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

6. First black and white photographs no later than summer 1892

7. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

8. Special camera for additive colour photography process

9. Magic lantern of professor Miethe. Deutsches Museum, München

10. Adolf Miethe (1862-1927)
Prokudin-Gorskii visited A.Miethe’s laboratory in
Charlottenburg no later than December 1902.

11. Prokudin-Gorskii’s studio was opened in 1900s.

12. Colour postcards based on Prokudin-Gorskii’s photo. 1905.

13. Private archive of Nadezhda Stanulevich

14. Fototehnicheskoe delo. 1905.

15. Prokudin-Gorskii was an editor in chief of
“Photographer Amateur” since 1906.

16. Presentation of colour photographs.
Reconstruction from film “Colour of Nation” by Leonid Parfenov, 2014.

17. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia about 15th August 1918.

18. Гаранина С.П. Из записных книжек Прокудина-Горского
// Киноведческие записки №29. 1996, С. 127-131
Production colour cinema was
the main reason for leaving
Russia
• 1918-1919 Norway
• 1919-1921 Great Britain
• 1921-1944 France

19. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

20. Andreï Korliakov. Le Grand Exode Russe.
1917-1939.

23. First colour cinema made by Prokudin-Gorskii in Europe was
showed in one of the London theatre on 16th March 1921.

24. Prokudin-Gorskii with his younger son founded company “Societé de Photochimic
Elka” in Nice in 1924. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

25. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

27. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

28. Pens. Offset. 1928
www.parisposters.com

29. “Gorsky”. 1930.

30. 1932

31. Fléchet (Hats). 1948.
Photo Gorsky-Triora

32. Album du Figaro 1949 N°20, Autumn, La Nouvelle Mode est
née, Christian Dior, Schiaparelli
Jacques Fath (Couture) 1949 Photo Gorsky Freres

33. Iris. 1934.

34. "GENIEVRE DE L'ABBAYE“
GORSKY Frères
1936

36. Colour printing. 1930s.

37. Histoire du Tour de France. 1952. Gorsky-Magny. Paris.

38. Tableaux PROVINCE de FRANCE.
1948

39. Calendarier 1963.
Photo Gorsky Ed.

40. Official description by “Gorsky Frères”

41. Nestlé. Commercial. 1935

42. 1936 1937
Nestlé. Commercial.

43. Le Président Doumergue (1871-1931).
Gorsky Frères. Illustration. 1931.

44. Exposition International des Arts et des
Techniques. 1937

45. Candy tin box. 1950s. Gorsky-Magny.

46. Gorsky Frères. 1934.

47. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine

48. Library of Congress bought collection of Prokudin-Gorskii’s
photographs in 1948.

49. Private archive of Dimitri Swetchine