MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Kodak, Agfacolor, Japonism
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In 1909 a project was begun by russian photographer sergey. His goal was to record in color the vast and diverse russian empire. His images were taken in russia between 1907 and 1915. Gorskii was the tsar nicholas" royal photographer. Prokudin-gorskii fled russia after the march 1917 revolution. In 1935 leopold godowsky, jr. , and leopold mannes, two. American musicians working with the kodak research laboratories, initiated the modern era of colour photography with their invention of. With this reversal (slide) film, colour transparencies could be obtained that were suitable both for projection and for reproduction. A year later the agfa company of germany developed the agfacolor negative-positive process, but owing to world war ii the film did not become available until 1949. In 1942 kodak introduced the kodacolor negative-positive film that. 20 years later after many improvements in quality and speed and a great reduction in price would become the most popular film used for amateur photography.
