Color photos from 1905 Russia
Friday, January 30th, 2004 - 2:17am
I thought some of you might be interested in this:
[url]http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/p?pp/prok:@band(color+rendering)[/url]
More background on the photographer:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html
http://www.ummagurau.com/art/russia/gallery.htm
I stared at them for quite some time. It's literally a world that doesn't exist anymore, but the coloring makes it come alive in a way B&W older pics do not, for me anyway. Hope you enjoy!
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
- Aldous Huxley
That is flat out awesome Ockham, thanks for linking to it. It''s so simple yet I''ve never seen anything quite like it.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Just so you can see the difference:
Wish I could do this with some of the old family photos we have.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Man this is awesome. I can''t believe this is almost 100 years ago!
Holy crap, that is amazing. Wow!
"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
Did Ted Turner buy Russia?
B&W pictures have that special ""scent"" for lack of a better word (english is not my native language after all). But this is an incredible job by whomever did it. It''s almost surreal.
Panem et circenses
"You really need to smoke a tree first to appreciate that one." - Sanjuro
Wow. Just, wow.
"THE HELL ASS BALLS." - Prederick, expressing frustration in the time-honored way.
That is so cool! Thanks!
LOC has a lot of great stuff on the American Memory website
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Transvestites in 1905 Russia. Weird.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
A HA HA HA! You are so silly! EVERYONE knows there was no color back then! People lived in black and white! That''s why painters got all the chicks, when they created colors, everyone was like ""Oh wow check it"" like in that movie where everything is in black and white and then there''s colors, lolz omg wtf
The man wears a bucket of KFC on his head. I wouldn't expect anything less. - Pred
LOL @ Gorack
That''s gotta be the most impressive job I''ve ever seen.
End of line
I assume this is not something you can do with just any B&W photograph. The fact that the original photographer used this special three-plate method made these fantastic images possible, correct?
Memepool.com linked to this about a year back, but its no less impressive seeing them again now. This ""window of color"" into the past -- years before conventional color film was developed -- is breathtaking and somewhat haunting.
It''s a shame that Gorskii''s method never really caught on.
I started my own blog so when I feel the need to make an ass out of myself, I won't have as far to go.
Those are awesome, thanks.
Oddly, it looks like they got more detail on the color version. Looks at the stump shes sitting on.
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Awesome. It kind of freaked me out when pictures from what I had mentally categorized the ''black and white'' era (as if color did not exist back then) suddenly manifested themselves as modern photographs.
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So its just the method he used to take the pictures that allowed them to be reproduced as color images? The colors are legitimate (more or less), not invented by a person/program who decided that the skirt hem should be blue (when in reality it was brown)?
In any case, that''s amazing. It makes the past seem so real--I wish we could do it to all B&W photos, that''d be incredible. It''s kind of scary that the digital process they used makes these 100 year old pictures look better than photos from a decade or two ago. Very nice.
Graktar, Orc Hunter
Wickedly cool!
It''s definitely impressive and strange at the same time.