Jun 22, 2009

Russia, Like its 1909...


One hundred years ago, Tsar Nicholas II commissioned Sergey M. Prokudin-Gorsky to document the Russian empire on film. In the process, Prokudin-Gorsky not only created a new technique for coloring black and white photographs, but recorded some of the most stunning, and haunting, images of a quiet world on the cusp of a revolutionary upheaval from which it would never retrun.

See it here and the full archive here.

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  2. Those are amazing photos! Thanks for sharing the link!

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  3. Anonymous5:46 AM

    Yo, I have this book and what is striking is that the color does not date the images. So they look like they could have been taken more recently than 1900s.

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  4. Glad you guys liked them. The color is absolutly unreal. And, yes, I shouldn't have said the full archive. The Flickr archive. =)

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