08 Sep 10
Originally posted by GatecrasherIndeed! Looking at the photos, you can see where people moved by the change in color distribution and the photos of the rivers show false colors because one image was taken a bit later and the waves on the water moved. The colors on some of them are just as good as modern day photos.
Wow, stunning. Makes me feel like a time traveler.
One thing, about #32, the guy next to the woman is obviously a warrior, with two swords, but what are those ammo looking things in his vest pockets? I don't think he had a pistol or rifle on him.
08 Sep 10
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Originally posted by sonhousemaybe they are fake cartridges made of cloth.
Indeed! Looking at the photos, you can see where people moved by the change in color distribution and the photos of the rivers show false colors because one image was taken a bit later and the waves on the water moved. The colors on some of them are just as good as modern day photos.
One thing, about #32, the guy next to the woman is obviously a warrior ...[text shortened]... e those ammo looking things in his vest pockets? I don't think he had a pistol or rifle on him.
another couple in the same style:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image😛rokudin-Gorskii-44.jpg
( http://tinyurl.com/2ebygx2 )
from
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0&q=historical+dagestan+clothing&ie=utf-8&sa=Search
08 Sep 10
Originally posted by zeeblebothttp://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image😛rokudin-Gorskii-43.jpg
maybe they are fake cartridges made of cloth.
another couple in the same style:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image😛rokudin-Gorskii-44.jpg
( http://tinyurl.com/2ebygx2 )
from
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0&q=historical+dagestan+clothing&ie=utf-8&sa=Search
08 Sep 10
Originally posted by zeebleboti guess not original. he corrected them.
if you are looking for the original photos, these may be them. some are the same photos as in the Boston page. but color is messier.
http://bobart.org/gorskii/
the LOC link he has is: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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These remarkable color photos were taken between 1905 and 1915, by capturing 3 images on glass plates, each with a different color filter, and were then recombined for presentation. Prokudin-Gorskii used a projector that merged the 3 images for slide shows. Prokudin-Gorskii was sponsored by Tsar Nicholas II and given great freedom to photograph anywhere in the Russian Empire. The images he produced are especially wonderful since two World Wars, the Bolshevik revolution, and almost a century of time have erased much of what he captured. Prokudin-Gorskii managed to take his glass plates to France, escaping the revolution, although his images of the Tsar's family, soon to be assassinated, have never been found. A large number (over 2,000) of Prokudin-Gorskii's original photos were sold to the Library of Congress by his family, and are available online at the Library of Congress website. I have done some cropping, color-correction and improving of each image shown here. These are but a few of the Gorskii collection.
Note: I originally posted 59 Prokudin-Gorskii images. In Sept. 2009, I added 85 more, at the top of this page, for a total of 144. Some of these are in the current TMORA exhibit "Revealing the Silk Road" and some were in the previous Prokudin-Gorskii exhibit, "Photographer to the Tsar".
