The amazing 100 year old color photos by Produkin-Gorsky

[pundit]

"In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record - in full and vibrant color - the vast and diverse Russian Empire. Here, with his story, is a selection of his amazing century old full color pictures..."

http://quazen.com/arts/photography/the-incredible-century-old-color-photography-of-prokudin-gorsky/







How it was achieved... http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

More... http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

and the Russian Produkin-Gorsky database..

http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0

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[jamesm007]

"We know that Prokudin-Gorskii intended his photographic images to be viewed in color because he developed an ingenious photographic technique in order for these images to be captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in color in slide lectures using a light-projection system

involving the same three filters."​

Amazing! We still use this basic concept of filtering the primary colors today in our digital cameras!

The pics are also amazing, the thing I don't like about B&W at times is it makes people and places seem old. Now try to understand, the pic of those 3 young ladies, in color they seem alive like it was taken yesterday, in B&W we see 'OLD'. Those people did not see in B&W they saw the world in color, it looked to them as to us today. Pics like these take away the time gap for me. Kinda hard to explain.

Really enjoyed it.
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[dave9t5]

"In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record - in full and vibrant color - the vast and diverse Russian Empire. Here, with his story, is a selection of his amazing century old full color pictures..."

Stunning images! Thanks for sharing this story!

I just finished reading Dosteyovski's vivid and epic novel Crime and Punishment set in the late 19th century Russia so it's great to see some vivid and epic photos from almost the same period.
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[noser]

When I was a very young child I thought that there was no color. I remarked about an old b&w to my parents at how old and dirty everything looked. It took a long time for me overcome it, but never totally. To this day I still catch myself thinking the same thoughts from time to time, even if I took them!

I think the same thing about color from the 60's and 70's. I was alive and remember the fashionable color palette wasn't exactly vivid (say about 1972) ... all mustards and avacados. Very retro now. Very 'blechhh' too.

Anyway, color from that period; say Vietnam war film footage, gets mixed up with the actual colors in use, and I catch myself imagining life through desaturating goggles.

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[BOONER]

Thanks for sharing, I really enojyed it.

I find it amazing that 100 years ago there were colour photos, and such good color. I only wish more people used this technique to capture their photos throughout the years.
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[S Clark]

Thanks for posting this, it is amazing.
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