Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii’s Negatives – The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii PhotographicRecord Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition) — Fascinating full color photographs using a three negative process a hundred years ago! The Library of Congress has “remastered” many of the prints. Fabulous!
We know that Prokudin-Gorskii intended his photographic images to be viewed in color because he developed an ingenious photographic technique in order for these images to be captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in color in slide lectures using a light-projection system [right] involving the same three filters.
Wow!
Wow indeed…. if I could digg this, it’d be dugg.
Amen!
Cool!! Great find!
I think this is a “re-find” considering it was posted on Memepool and Slashdot in 2001.
http://www.memepool.com/Search/index.cgi?terms=photographs+russia
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/06/2135224.shtml?tid=152
It’s an amazing page. That’s why I remember hearing about it years later.
Those early pioneers never cease to amaze. How many of us could think that creatively? Just think how fast they went this to movies to TV to color TV!
(and then we got stuck on that!)
Amazing
One might expect color fringing due to parallax, but there does not appear to be any. Were the images processed to remove any differences between images caused by a slightly different perspective? Could they be processed to reveal 3-D?
Wow! That’s incredible!
All this time when looking at BW vintage photographs, it seem so distance…but now these images are so intimate and vivid!
A silimar proccess was used with early Technicolor, although that used a prism, and of course was much later.
wow…posted in 2001 and the webpage STILL EXISTS…I’m flabberghast.
the images are cool too.