[Alexander Brodsky's pavilion on Lake Pirogovo, near Moscow, via flickr user Yuri Palmin. Described in Metropolis in 2006:
...in winter 2003 a team of laborers under his direction trudged out onto [Lake Pirogov's] frozen surface and, in the frigid conditions, assembled a rectangular mesh cage about 40 feet long and 8 feet high that they proceeded [...]
“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer… Outfitted with a specially equipped railroad car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, and in possession of two permits that granted him access to restricted areas and cooperation from the empire’s bureaucracy, Prokudin-Gorsky documented the Russian Empire around 1909 through 1915.”
[via opus // more about the digital reclamation [...]
