Monday, December 27, 2004

Color photos of Russia in the early 1900s



Czar Nicholas II commissioned Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii to take a photographic survey of Russia. The catch: he took three black-and-white photos at a time, each with a red, blue, or green filter. So now we have the technology to put 'em together... I've never seen anything like this before. The full exhibit is here. Recommended: Harvesting Tea, The Emir of Bukhara, and Sergei himself.

3 comments:

jhaddock said...

Wow... that's pretty awesome. This almost makes up for all of your anus-related posts, Klimas.

Ryoga said...

Almost.

slipshod said...

hey, i liked that one with the guy that ate all that raw hamburger then had to pull a huge worm out of his butt in denmark or wherever.