If you’re like me, you’ll think this is the most interesting thing you’ve seen today. Full color photographs, not colorized, taken in Russia between 1910-15, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
Hey, wait a sec’… the Library of Congress bought those photographic plates back in ’48?? That was only a year before the Soviets had their first atomic bomb test! Some Commie sympathizer in the LoC wasted American post-war taxpayer money on Russian photos?? I’m outraged!
There’s a color movie test from 1922 that Kodak made I’ll be posting.
Oh, wow. We saw some of these in an issue of MUSE several months back, and it was really, really difficult to believe that they weren’t a re-creation with actors along the lines of Sturbridge village. We are so conditioned to “see” the past in black and white, or in oil paintings with a patina of grime. Thanks for sharing!
And I can’t believe I was born less than 50 years after they taken!
Oh! I can’t believe these pictures were taken 100 years ago… so strange seeing that people in color and in that good quality.
As the French would say, “Encroyable!” I’m not sure if I spelled that right. Can you say “Photoshop?” That photo looks like it was taken yesterday! Amazing technology for back then, if not.