For those wondering how this quality is possible: These photos were taken by **Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky**. He was a pioneer who convinced the Tsar to let him document the Russian Empire.
He used a camera that took three rapid black-and-white exposures through red, green, and blue filters. When projected together, they created a full-color image. This was decades before color film became standard. Looking at these feels like looking through a time portal especially knowing that the world depicted here would completely vanish just a few years later due to WWI and the Revolution.
 Self-portrait of the photographer, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
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What cool excellent pictures.
Confident-Job-137 on
it’s so surreal seeing the trees and nature from 110+ years ago looking just like they do rn
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I did my high school photography paper on him. Fascinating stuff. The three black and white photos, taken with colored filters, would then be displayed through colored filtered lenses and “colorizing” the image, or with a special viewing scope, that contained all three colored filters you could look through and see the “colored” image on a print. It’s wild stuff.
Lifted straight from wiki, which explains it better than I can.
The resulting three photographs could be projected through filters of the same colors and exactly superimposed on a screen, synthesizing the original range of color additively; or viewed as an additive color image by one person at a time through an optical device known generically as a chromoscope or photochromoscope, which contained colored filters and transparent reflectors that visually combined the three into one full-color image; or used to make photographic or mechanical prints in the complementary colors cyan, magenta and yellow, which, when superimposed, reconstituted the color subtractively.
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My grandfather wrote a journal about growing up a peasant in rural Russia in the early 1900s. Lunch was what you found growing or crawling.
They eventually fled because of the pogroms by the Cossacks. They almost settled in Warsaw but were lucky enough to make it to NY.
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I love the last picture. I want to know more about him.
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I’m here for the posts that stay true to the intentions of this subÂ
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Marty Lagina from Oak Island was there? The dude must have found the treasure and used it to build a time machine.
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My dad had a coffee table book of his photos
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Very interesting
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Wow, so cool to see the source pictures for one of my favorite books ever, A Coal Miners Bride! It was from the Dear America series and written for middle school age girls. But I reread it last year and it’s still such an amazing read even at 30.
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For those wondering how this quality is possible: These photos were taken by **Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky**. He was a pioneer who convinced the Tsar to let him document the Russian Empire.
He used a camera that took three rapid black-and-white exposures through red, green, and blue filters. When projected together, they created a full-color image. This was decades before color film became standard. Looking at these feels like looking through a time portal especially knowing that the world depicted here would completely vanish just a few years later due to WWI and the Revolution.
https://preview.redd.it/q7c4xkaqyzag1.jpeg?width=2559&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a022c03c3184ef7611b9b3c057bdc16975d0627c
https://preview.redd.it/9napbmntyzag1.png?width=2400&format=png&auto=webp&s=e11fa8acdebacd0c71abb05ec334f64b40b2a6c4
https://preview.redd.it/xwul3x2zyzag1.png?width=4134&format=png&auto=webp&s=21cd846594aa9a36927ff8a10383cd5a47b4dd4c
 Self-portrait of the photographer, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
What cool excellent pictures.
it’s so surreal seeing the trees and nature from 110+ years ago looking just like they do rn
I did my high school photography paper on him. Fascinating stuff. The three black and white photos, taken with colored filters, would then be displayed through colored filtered lenses and “colorizing” the image, or with a special viewing scope, that contained all three colored filters you could look through and see the “colored” image on a print. It’s wild stuff.
Lifted straight from wiki, which explains it better than I can.
The resulting three photographs could be projected through filters of the same colors and exactly superimposed on a screen, synthesizing the original range of color additively; or viewed as an additive color image by one person at a time through an optical device known generically as a chromoscope or photochromoscope, which contained colored filters and transparent reflectors that visually combined the three into one full-color image; or used to make photographic or mechanical prints in the complementary colors cyan, magenta and yellow, which, when superimposed, reconstituted the color subtractively.
My grandfather wrote a journal about growing up a peasant in rural Russia in the early 1900s. Lunch was what you found growing or crawling.
They eventually fled because of the pogroms by the Cossacks. They almost settled in Warsaw but were lucky enough to make it to NY.
I love the last picture. I want to know more about him.
I’m here for the posts that stay true to the intentions of this subÂ
Marty Lagina from Oak Island was there? The dude must have found the treasure and used it to build a time machine.
My dad had a coffee table book of his photos
Very interesting
Wow, so cool to see the source pictures for one of my favorite books ever, A Coal Miners Bride! It was from the Dear America series and written for middle school age girls. But I reread it last year and it’s still such an amazing read even at 30.
https://preview.redd.it/ymbdwpcf30bg1.jpeg?width=926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d24a260a9c5dc2a97d35b4d31be835e742cdb832
The fourth one, the dude is looking at Artur Morgenov or Ivan Bolotov ready to give a quest.
That purple dress pops like it was taken yesterday. Mind blown this is over 100 years old.
so similar to technicolor but for still photo, real cool
Does anyone know what that massive wicker basket in #4 is used for? I’m impressed by the size and craftsmanship involved.
…and then things got worse
anyone want to weigh in on the significance/meaning of posing with a plate of food?