Lugano: The Town and Lake

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Switzerland, Italy, Lugano

Lugano: The Town and Lake, Switzerland, Italy, Lugano, 1905

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Lugano: The Town and Lake — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Switzerland, Italy, Lugano).

Subjects: switzerland, italy, lakes & ponds, lugano, lake.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Lugano.