Old Russian photographs

[Chr1stof]

Thought this may be of interest to some. Hope its in the right section and not been posted before (apologies if it is and it has!)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

If the hosting site allows hotlinking, here is an example-

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/prokudin_08_20/p11_00021478.jpg

 

[Yardbent]

fascinating

just looked through them all...and the comments too

thank you

 

[Paul Male]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

 

[zeugma]

Welcome to the world of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
I've looked at these in awe many times and they still amaze.

 

[Meyssonnier]

Hi
Amazing quality for a hundred years ago.
Thanks for sharing.
Graham

 

[Starastin]

fantastic !!!

some of them look like they were taken yesterday not a century ago.

how come they are in colour ?

 

[Starastin]

http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/Memorial/PG/colorpg_22.html


here is a lot more.

 

[eos1]

Amazing photos, they really do show the power of photography to freeze a moment in time.

 

[Chr1stof]

fantastic !!!

some of them look like they were taken yesterday not a century ago.

how come they are in colour ?

"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. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time"

 

[Starastin]

that's mad !!!

 

[mdollan]

Unreal - As Starastin says looks at though some of them were taken only yesterday!