Family Resting in the Harvested Field

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway

Family Resting in the Harvested Field, Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Family Resting in the Harvested Field — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: agricultural laborers, volga-baltic waterway, group portraits, haystacks.

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

Original Russian caption: Na zhnitvie. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].