Thursday, 22nd of January, 2004

Via Charlie’s Diary: Around the turn of the century (that’s the 20th century, kids!) a Russian photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed a technique for taking colour images, by taking three black and white photographs through green, red and blue filters, and then projecting the three images on a wall through the same filters. Via the Library of Congress’s large archive of those plates, somebody has used Photoshop to composite those images into some really beautiful colour images from the early 20th centry. Check it out: link

Some especially cool ones: River1, Yurts 1, Bridge 1 (amazing colours!). It’s amazing in this crowd shot how little had changed between the three shots.

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