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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Old Russia, in colour

Chanced upon this very interesting set of photos of old Russia from The Big Picture.

You rarely see photos from a century ago, in colour, but photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii had done so, with a special camera that captured black and white shots using red, green and blue filters, which were later recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

So surreal. I can't believe they were taken 100 years ago.















Photos from The Big Picture


The resized photos don't do the details justice so do check out the website to see more images.

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