Russia in color, a century ago

[ChrisGreaves]

Possibly of interest to historians of graphic arts:
Russia in color, a century ago
" ... this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun."

[HansV]

That's amazing! Thanks for posting this.

[ChrisGreaves]

That's amazing! Thanks for posting this.

You're welcome. I can't help but wonder if he had used three separately filtered cameras with a shared trigger we might not today be looking at the world's first unblurred 3-dimensional color photographs.
Just imagine - 3D photographs before those cheap plastic glasses were even possible!

[Argus]

Reminds me of this one, with Calvin and Hobbes.

Amazing; they had colours.

[HansV]

I love the "philosophic" episodes of Calvin and Hobbes...

[Argus]

Yes, I agree, Hans. But there are lots of "Calvin and Hobbes" that are fun for different reasons.
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1985/12/07/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sorry, Chris, for the off topic posts. I really enjoyed your link to the Boston Globe's “The Big Picture”. This is indeed an extraordinary collection of colour photographs!

[ChrisGreaves]

Sorry, Chris, for the off topic posts.

Not a problem, either of you.
I'm supposed to be discussing VBA somewhere actually ....