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Raduga – Antique Wall Art

Raduga — historic photograph
Raduga. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Raduga in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The subject here is a rainbow arching over a river in western Siberia, a scene the picture's record names directly. It dates to 1912 and survives as three black-and-white glass negatives, each made through a different colored filter in the three-color separation method. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii used this technique across the Russian Empire from about 1909 to 1915, on a commission from Tsar Nicholas II to document the land and its people. Combining the three exposures later allowed color to be reconstructed from plates that recorded only light and dark.

Medium1 negative (3 frames) : glass, b&w, three-color separation ; 24 x 9 cm.
Notes1912
SubjectsRivers. Rainbows.Russia (Federation)--Siberia, Western.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-200041

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