Russian Empire in color

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Here's a chance to look at the scenes from the Russian Empire a century ago, in color:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html
I was gobsmacked by these pics.

Some examples:
Supervisor of Chernigov floodgate:
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Water-carrier in Samarkand:
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Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer, in the Caucasus:
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Khan of Khorezm:
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I love these pictures. I personally think colour really gives a sense that people in the early 1900s were actually people, not just black and white images in a textbook.
 
I saw these. They bring history to life. It's amazing.
 
Farsight said:
I love these pictures. I personally think colour really gives a sense that people in the early 1900s were actually people, not just black and white images in a textbook.
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Absolutely this. Black and White pictures of the "olden' days" never ever capture it very well.
 
Thanks for the links!

I was amazed by the Hungarian alternators in the OP--at first glance, it looks just like a modern factory, but then the little details jump out at you. The quality was fairly impressive on most, except for a few where you could tell there was movement in the background and the three filters didn't quite line up.
 
Well, i find it pretty weird. They make history so...real. Seeing an actual color photo of Napoleon would probably blow my mind:lol:
Thanks for the link:goodjob:
 
I saw a bunch of the Russian colored pictures in the Russian art museum, and yeah, they completely blew my mind. Outside of a few where the plates didn't line up or had alot of movement, they looked like a recent National Geographic picture.
 
I wonder why this process wasn't used much elsewhere.

The old WWII-in-Color series was pretty amazing too.
 
It's always fun when we get a new thread on Prokudin-Gorskiy. It should be a yearly tradition at this point.
 
Don't be an ass. Some of the pictures are ones that haven't been posted before on this forum, and it was legitimately cool to see them. But you could've used the already extant thread for them, though.
 
Dachs said:
Don't be an ass. Some of the pictures are ones that haven't been posted before on this forum, and it was legitimately cool to see them. But you could've used the already extant thread for them, though.
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Says the pot to the kettle.

Not everyone hangs around Civfanantics history forums for years on end. A number of people here have seen them for the first time and are glad.

So unless you actually have something non-catty to say, you should probably just keep it zipped. ;)
 
Yes those are great. The color and "feel" of them is really much better than any other colour photos or videos of that age.

Here is a video from colonial India 1911 using the first colour video technique "Kinemacolor". Exactly 100 years ago so quite fitting.

Link to video.

You can find alot of later digitally coloured videos from that era but that one is actually original colour. Still not as "alive" as those photos though.
 
Dachs said:
It's always fun when we get a new thread on Prokudin-Gorskiy. It should be a yearly tradition at this point.
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Well yeah, and for a good reason, even after seeing it a million times it still blows people's minds.
 
I've already seen them. It still has the same effect.

I'm not all like" OMG I SEE DEM FIRSTZ I WINZ THE INTERWEBZ! YOU ALL NABS!".
 
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