Color Russian Photos from 100 Years Ago

Seth Fischer bio ↓  ·  August 29th, 2010  ·  filed under art

I don’t usually take single photographic links and make one post out of them, but sometimes something is so freakin’ cool…

From 1909 to 1912, the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was given a crap-ton of money by the Tsar Nicholas II to go take pictures with a fancy camera that could take black and white photos in a way in which they could later be turned into color photos.

Incredibly high quality color photos.

It kind of feels like I’m looking at ghosts.

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, Pank, Guernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's Sunday Editor at The Rumpus and founding editor of The Splinter Generation and webscribbler.net. He also does writing consultation. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

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