June 07, 2003

Color Photos: Circa 1900?

Some really stunning color photos from the very early 1900s. What, there was no color film back then....you are correct! However, the brilliant Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed a method for color slides projections that involved three negatives, each using a separate red/blue/green filter. Through modern day digichromatography they have been presented in full color for our viewing - for the first time to the public by the Library of Congress.

Pretty cool seeing color photos of things we have only seen in black and white previously.

Some background

All the Color Images

All Images

Posted by answerguru at June 7, 2003 11:40 AM
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