Russia in color, a century ago

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Russia in color, a century ago

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

#38432 • 2012-09-08 08:05:45 • Gargron said:

These photos are about 102 years old, colored. 'Thought 't was pretty curious.
#38433 • 2012-09-08 08:21:24 • InsaneBoredGame said:

Whoa, these shots are gorgeous~

Hard to believe that they're that old...
#38434 • 2012-09-08 08:22:33 • OverSol said:

Well, That was some pretty fuckin' Great recolors, although , in most pics the rivers and lakes seems abit messed up to me.
#38435 • 2012-09-08 08:26:29 • Gargron said:

@OverSol That's probably because of the exposure time required for the old photographs. While the lens is open and recording, the river doesn't stop flowing, so it blurs on the frame.
#38437 • 2012-09-08 08:33:22 • OverSol said:

@Gargron

i thought of "Well that photo must be REALLY old" but thanks for clearing that up.
#38440 • 2012-09-08 08:36:49 • Deftones said:

Old Russia is so colourful! The clothing some people are wearing, really vibrant with colour. I mean, check this guy - Colourful and manly.
#38441 • 2012-09-08 08:37:55 • TCManila said:

Oooooh...

So this means Russia was behind us in terms of Imagery?
#38442 • 2012-09-08 08:47:47 • Gargron said:

@Deftones To be honest I'm not sure how well "Russia" applies here. The article was called that but technically what we're looking at is the Russian Empire, which includes Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan etc. Russia itself was always just Russia. That guy over there is from Uzbekistan, I think. Cool dude though.

@TCManila I don't understand what you mean!
#38443 • 2012-09-08 08:50:32 • TCManila said:

@Gargron I'm implying that it was preserved for a long time. At first I thought, "they painted something this vibrant?" but then, it was something... it could be their preservation technique or something.
#38444 • 2012-09-08 08:52:28 • Gargron said:

@TCManila These are photographs made in 1910. They were black and white initially, but recolored later.
#38445 • 2012-09-08 08:55:30 • TCManila said:

@Gargron oh. Silly me.
#38453 • 2012-09-08 13:21:03 • schmidt said:

I like it how back in the 1910 people posed for a photograph just the same way people do now for lookbooks or glossy magazines: standing straight and looking at the camera indifferently.
#38459 • 2012-09-08 14:11:14 * • sogeking said:

It wasn't recolored. Prokudin-Gorskii used lenses(light filters?) to get photos in color. You should read about it on the wikipedia. It's even written in the article you shared.
#38460 • 2012-09-08 14:57:59 • Gargron said:

@sogeking I missed that. That makes it even more awesome.
#38474 • 2012-09-09 04:54:01 • crazymexican said:

@sogeking i was about to point that out. i wonder why they didnt take any photos like that in the us?
#38505 • 2012-09-09 17:45:58 • sogeking said:

@crazymexican http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=45614&int_modo=1#.UEzVF7IaMZ4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Eugene_Ives
#38797 • 2012-09-14 10:34:32 • Hymake said:

It's curious how these photos totally look like they had been taken in modern times, just with the difference of the clothes. When I was a child I thought the world was in black and white in the past... lol

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