100 year old colour photos

[Jaded]

Wonderful


         Alex Gridenko Studio | 100 Year Old Colour Photographs by S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii
      

[Gus]

Wonderful


         Alex Gridenko Studio | 100 Year Old Colour Photographs by S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii
      

Really beautiful pictures 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Impressive colour, a far more 'modern' and 'realistic' look than I would have expected.

Although all the people are obviously posed, as must have been required by the technique he was using, he has somehow managed to transform this into an artistic virtue. Beautiful results.

[Riggers]

Almost exactly what I was going to say too Cudzfjsukli. Fantasticly clear, almost hand-painted feel about them, and as you say, they have a very modern feel to them (with figures in obviously!), and yes they are staged/posed, but it's like they were taken only yesterday.

[clarion]

I once had the opportunity to buy a plate camera for this sort of thing.  It had clever optics inside to split the image into three beams which were then filtered.

Big.

Ungainly.

Awesome.

And hideously expensive.

[Salvatore]

I once had the opportunity to buy a plate camera for this sort of thing.  It had clever optics inside to split the image into three beams which were then filtered.

Big.

Ungainly.

Awesome.

And hideously expensive.

And that's just the start of it

Prokudin-Gorskii completed surveys of eleven regions of Russia, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car.