What's so special, you ask? Well, these color photos were taken 100 years ago. They're not B&W pics that were later colorized.
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This, for instance, is the only known color photo of Leo Tolstoy..
For 24 more pics, the historical background behind these photos, and a little bit about the technology that Prokudin-Gorskii used to take color pics in the 1907-1915 era, see Newsweek's article here.
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Absolutely fabulous.
For 24 more pics, the historical background behind these photos, and a little bit about the technology that Prokudin-Gorskii used to take color pics in the 1907-1915 era, see Newsweek's article here.
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Absolutely fabulous.
2 comments:
That is really cool! I thought it was a joke at first until I read the article, so thanks for providing the link!
i really, really like old photographs. i think they "bring back to life" people who have long passed on. these are especially life-generating, because trhey are in color.
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