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06-03-2010, 11:57 PM | #1 | |
Radical Centrist
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June 3, 2010: Early 1900s photography collection
Welcome to Iraq, maybe 95 years ago. One of the early IotDs that I find people discovering, over and over, is the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii collection, which showed up on the Internets in May 2001. Those were photos from 1907-1912 or so. It turns out the earliest color process was something called Autochrome, invented in 1907. And so somebody set out to photograph the world in it, to document the world in color, as it was. Quote:
(And then this blog collected 'em all on one page, for ease of use.) And like the earlier Prokudin-Gorskii images, having these shots in color gives us so much more information. For example, here's the most poignant of the WW1 images. via Neatorama |
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06-04-2010, 02:01 AM | #2 |
Sir Post-A-Lot
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Early 1900s photography.......
That is an amazing display of photographs from around the world.
It's almost as if time has stood still. The color process gives the pictures such life. Thanks for the links......
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06-04-2010, 05:23 AM | #3 |
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Only one smile in all of them...
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06-04-2010, 07:55 AM | #4 |
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The world was more attractive before we draped power and phone cables all over.
Any ideas what's going on in that photo from Mongolia, of a guy who is in a box out in the desert and sticking his arm out of the hole? |
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06-04-2010, 09:00 AM | #6 |
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I like the attractive Dutch couple.
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06-04-2010, 03:07 PM | #7 |
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^ Iraq then. ^
v Iraq now. v (God bless America. God bless "democracy.")
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