Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Color photos from 100 years ago


Today for the first time I looked at color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 in the Russian empire.

I was fascinated by the description: " Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images."

What is your favorite photograph?

Thank you to Stephen Epstein for sending this link over Facebook and allowing for this meaningful experience.


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