ephemera

Fleeting moments of internet interest.


by Jonas Wisser

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com This photograph was taken in 1909. No, seriously: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. Trust me, you want to click through to see the rest.

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

This photograph was taken in 1909. No, seriously:

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.

Trust me, you want to click through to see the rest.

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