Look at these photos. How old do you think they are?
50? 60 years old? 70 years old? Would you believe these photos are over 100 years old? These photo collection where taken by Russian photographer/inventor Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who created and used a tricolor camera that rapidly exposed three B&W neagtives as RGB composites to produce excellent full color photographs.
This is the description of the collection from the Library of Congress.
"The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. An active photographer and scientist, Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook most of his ambitious color documentary project from 1909 to 1915. The Library of Congress purchased the collection from the photographer's sons in 1948."
The color banding on the top and bottom of the photos is a dead giveaway that the photos are old. But if I cropped them like what the collection shows at Boston.com did, you wouldn't know these photos were that old.
The quality of the photo the color makes it hard to believe these photos were over 100 years old. It makes good materials for photographic study.
You can view the entire collection at the Library of Congress website.
To view selected high quality images, visit Boston.com's The Big Picture.
50? 60 years old? 70 years old? Would you believe these photos are over 100 years old? These photo collection where taken by Russian photographer/inventor Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who created and used a tricolor camera that rapidly exposed three B&W neagtives as RGB composites to produce excellent full color photographs.
This is the description of the collection from the Library of Congress.
"The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. An active photographer and scientist, Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook most of his ambitious color documentary project from 1909 to 1915. The Library of Congress purchased the collection from the photographer's sons in 1948."
The color banding on the top and bottom of the photos is a dead giveaway that the photos are old. But if I cropped them like what the collection shows at Boston.com did, you wouldn't know these photos were that old.
The quality of the photo the color makes it hard to believe these photos were over 100 years old. It makes good materials for photographic study.
You can view the entire collection at the Library of Congress website.
To view selected high quality images, visit Boston.com's The Big Picture.
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