Colour Spectrum Photography 1: Russia, in the early 20th Century Posted on September 27, 2010January 6, 2011 by Ānandajoti Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) was commissioned to document the Russian empire, and he did so in an ingenious way and managed to get what are effectively colour photographs of his subjects by using a form of spectrum photography. Read more