He was quite the scientists and gis own original research yielded patents for producing color film slides and for projecting color motion pictures. Around 1907 Prokudin-Gorskii envisioned and formulated a plan to use the emerging technological advancements that had been made in color photography to systematically document the Russian Empire. And bless Library of Congress for finding out ways to print them in color.
I think when I see these color photographs it helps erase my stigma of the "past" - they are no longer figures, but human beings.
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I don't think I've ever noticed the barrier that black-and-white photographs puts up. They do seem old. Weird.
oh my - they do appear to be real, suddenly, strangely. what an interesting thing color does to us.
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