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Summer’s End

A Moment in Photographic History:
“Photographer to the Tsar”  Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was born August 31, 1863 in Murom, Russia. Prokudin-Gorsky developed early techniques for taking color photographs.
A Photographic Quote of Note:
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
- – - – - – - Mathew Brady

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