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Early color photos of Russia
    #8954045 - 09/19/08 09:48 AM (15 years, 7 months ago)

If you've never seen these images, take a look. In the early 20th century Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky invented a way of taking full color photographs using three monochrome images, each taken through a different colored filter. When combined in the original colors, say by using three projectors outfitted with the original filters, the result is a nearly perfect color image. Because the colors are not preserved in unstable color emulsions but on sturdy glass plates, they do not fade and are as vivid today as when they were made.

These pictures show Austrian POWs in a Russian camp during WW1. The is of the three original monochrome images. The second shows these images combined in the correct colors:



Under the patronage of the Czar Prokudin-Gorsky made about 2000 photographs of daily life throughout the Russian Empire. The Library of Congress has most or all of these. A good collection is available here.

One of my favorites is this one of Jewish school children with their teacher, taken around 1909. Horrible to think of what the next few decades brought:

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Re: Early color photos of Russia [Re: Hematite]
    #8954520 - 09/19/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Cool!  The US military used the same idea (but with film) to make color recordings of the early atomic bomb tests long before color film existed.


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Re: Early color photos of Russia [Re: Hematite]
    #8954752 - 09/19/08 01:00 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

That's very cool.

But I thought that James Clerk Maxwell was the first to make color photographs using three color sheets superimposed?

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Re: Early color photos of Russia [Re: lIllIIIllIlIIlIlIIllIllIIl]
    #8954774 - 09/19/08 01:07 PM (15 years, 7 months ago)

Prokudin-Porskii wasn't the first, he just used his own process.

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