RED, greend & blue.
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer comissioned by Tsar Nicholas II to survey the Empire's eleven regions from 1909 to 1912.
He invented his own color photography technique using three color filters [R,G,B] used individually exposing B&W glass plates. He then lit each negative plate (I assume again with color filters) with a seperate projector, focusing all three onto the same screen to reporduce color images during his lecutres.
It's quite striking to see color images from this period. Did you know people were in color before television? I didn't!
The US Library of Congress bought up his thousands of slides in 1948 after his death. You can see some of them here.
He invented his own color photography technique using three color filters [R,G,B] used individually exposing B&W glass plates. He then lit each negative plate (I assume again with color filters) with a seperate projector, focusing all three onto the same screen to reporduce color images during his lecutres.
It's quite striking to see color images from this period. Did you know people were in color before television? I didn't!
The US Library of Congress bought up his thousands of slides in 1948 after his death. You can see some of them here.
posted by ryanerik at
12:05 PM
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The oldest color photo?
http://tinyurl.com/hendg
Wonder how long it was until a naked woman was photographed. As with most technology, my guess is about a week.
we've come a long way from masturbating to peices of tree bark shaped like a vaginas.
Have we though?
http://tinyurl.com/k5x3n
i honestly can confess that sometime before the age of six i really thought the whole world of antiquity was entirely in black & white, that color itself had been an innovation that occured when color tv appeared
no one told me the truth. i had to figure it all out for myself, like a feral child
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