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October 28, 2004
The Tsar's Colors
The library of congress has an amazing collection of color photographs from Tsarist Russia called The Empire That Was Russia. Photographer to the Tsar Prokudin-Gorskii developed an ingenious photographic technique for capturing color photographs using three near identical black and white exposures of the same scene. Each exposure had a different colored filter in front of the lense (one red, one green and one blue). Today those negatives have been recombined using a digital process, and the result is photographs of pre-soviet Russia which are almost erie in their immediacy and humanity. It gives you an erie feeling to view in vibrant color people and places which were photographed almost 100 years ago. You must check this one out.
Posted by joel at October 28, 2004 11:21 PM
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