Amazing! This photo and many others here are from a CENTURY ago! Like, really. This was taken in 1910!
Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
kierstenmh posted a different photo, which led to my discovery of the whole series.
most excellent
Amazing! This photo and many others here are from a CENTURY ago! Like, really. This was taken in 1910!
Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
kierstenmh posted a different photo, which led to my discovery of the whole series.
most excellent
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