Russia in color, a century ago

[Nicholas_C]

I thought i'd share this link of interesting colour Russian photos from around 1908 if anyone hasn't seen them.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/0 ... y_ago.html

I always love seeing colour old photos, its like time travelling, and also because its captured on film.....beautiful. Amazing clothes...
Because the colours are slightly unreal, they remind of kodachrome film or those old viewmaster 3d viewers....Dreamlike.

Interesting because he had to take 3 shots in succession, all subjects had to be still for quite a time for it to work properly so he probably had to tell them to keep as still as possible for ages, can imagine him saying 'Dont move!' (in Russian). Some things were obviously out of his control like those kids on the hill and the river water, so the three colours bleed.

[Tscan]

That is amazing! The colors look very believably accurate, and the detail is stunning, especially after 100 years... overall ten times more pleasing than any modern 10 megapixel digicam pictures.

[BAC]

At first glance I thought it had to be artificially colored. But looking closer you can see the rainbow effect where someone moved. In picture 19 you can see where the guy in the far right had to scratch his nose. :lol:

[BMasson]

In the city where I live (Richfield Minnesota) we have a Russian art museum. They had some of these pictures on display. I should say projected images. If I remember correctly, 3 projectors displaying the image in red, green and blue, would be displayed on a single screen--Like Technicolor. When I found out this was being done prior to WW I, I was shocked. According to one of the staff at the museum, this Russian photographer may have learned this from a German gentlman, who was also doing this at the time. And all this time, I didn't think we had color till the 1940's. Quite amazing.

[Clapton Pond]

Great stuff!