Color Photography from 1900s Russia

| August 31, 2011 | Comments (5)

Photos they did have 100 years ago in Russia too. But to manage to see ordinary peasants’ cheeks blush and how their clothes were really so colourful, it makes you realize how flawed our vision of the past has become due to the limitations of black & white technology.

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), a chemist, but also a photographer, managed to bring these old photos to life with the help of color-filtered plates of glass. So what we have here is a collection of photos taken in the Russian Empire from 1909 until 1912, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire the Town of Mezhgore

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Peasant Girls

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Workers Harvesting Tea

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Dagestani People

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Handcar on the Murmansk Railway

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Harvest Time

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Three Generation of Workers at the Zlatoust Plant

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Armenian Women

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Mariinskii Canal

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Cotton Harvest in Sukhumi Botanical Garden

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Emir Bukharskii from Bukhara

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Novaia Ladoga

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Head Study

100 Years Old Color Photos of the Russian Empire Lilacs

Photos from Library of Congress.

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  1. Fotografías a color de 1900 | [ Estamos Al Aire ] says:
    September 20, 2011 at 04:19

    [...] En la actualidad hablar de fotografías a color es muy común e incluso nos parece un tema que no genera ningún tipo de controversia; pero ¿qué pasaría si hablara de esto en el año de 1900?  Les explico,  la  primer cinta que permitió tomar fotografías a color fue hecha por Kodak y su KodakCrhome en el año de 1935. Pensar en encontrar fotografías a color en 1900 parecería imposible ya que no existía tal tecnología en ese año. Sin embargo, un fotógrafo ruso llamado  Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii logró tan novedoso efecto para su época. Lo consiguió haciendo 3 fotografías del mismo objeto o persona pero aplicando distintos filtros en cada toma. El sitio que se dio a la tarea de recolectar dichas imágenes fue  Molempire. [...]

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