Thought this was really cool i wish there was more colour photography from the time period
With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer 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. 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 - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
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High quality makes those people feel like real live people,rather then...history?
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Thanks for the Documentary link Nick, going to check it out right away!
Yep, I've seen that pic before.
If i recall correctly she has been caught stealing, and put in a box to die of starvation. With a plate of food just out of reach and the locker too.
Here's an even bigger collection of Produkin-Gorski's photos:
http://www.thespektator.co.uk/spg2.html
Their resolution isn't that great unfortunately.
I think that album has all these pictures. In other words, it's the same thing, except the link in the OP has less pics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii
i was wrong!
They're amazing though.
And here all this time I thought the past was just black and white and we introduced color later on in the 90's.
www.shorpy.com
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/02/19/abandoned-russian-village/
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/01/18/russia-under-nazis-during-ww2/
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2007/08/28/wooden-pillars/
There is a ton more too, but you get the idea.
Photos still had the painting/portrait mind set, it wasn't a .1 second flash to capture a memory.
Bingo, back in those days they were using film rated at iso >10 and lenses way slower than what we have right now.
oh and i went to the Artvin which is one of the city that he photographed...
i think the reason of people are not smiling is not about the exposure,its about mentality...at this time photographs are not common as today and i think people finds laughing without a reason very stupiditly...
Thanks for that. Due to modern western politics, we rarely get a glimpse at the Vietnamese point of view. It doesn't matter that they were Communist - they were people, and they fought tooth and nail for independence, only to have that screwed up by foreign meddling.
And yet, all sides manage to torture and kill eachother pretty good :P Still, getting to see "Uncle Ho" in his hut or the storming of Dien Bien Phu as if you're there is very very awesome. Shame the uploader din't do the original show justice in terms of video quality, which was HD and butter-smooth...