Hat tip to my fellow blogger, Instructivist. I was perusing his archives and came across a link he provided to a series of color photographs taken in Czarist Russia between the years 1907-1915 (!!!). This isn't some cheapo colorizing process like Ted Turner did to all those old movies. The photographer used a special camera of his own design that provided a crude mechanism for producing color photography. I have a book of color photography taken during World War II that I cherish. Color photos from 1911 is just too wild to comprehend! Be sure to click on the photographs; they enlarge. And also don't forget to click on the links at the top of the page next to the title called Exhibition Sections. They will take you to more of these incredible photographs.
Good Day to You, Sir!
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was, and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
2 comments:
Incredible pictures! It seems impossible that they are that old. I have gotten back prints from RiteAid that didn't look that good.
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