What We're Reading: The Only Color Picture of Leo Tolstoy
“After many years of work, I have now achieved excellent results in producing accurate colors,” Russian chemist Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky noted in 1908. Prokudin-Gorsky, who had recently developed a color photography process, made the claim in a letter to Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Prokudin-Gorsky …
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