Color Russian Photos from 100 Years Ago
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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