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  • Colour pictures from WW2

    http://www.ww2incolor.com/

    Quite good...put those times in different view, I think. (especially since when I was really small I thought that people must've had sad lives in the past, when whole world was b&w . Perhaps these photos will help me get ird of such misconceptions entarily... )

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    Prokudin-Gorskii (photographer of the Tsar) made colour photographs of Russia around the turn of the previous (!) century:
    The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution.

    (the technology is quite different from colour film and is also explained; back then the photos couldn't be 'printed' but only projected)

    There even are colour photographs of WW1 (using early colour film):
    Great War 14-18 site with explicit graphic pictures, real color photographs, and thought-provoking articles on the First World War 1914 - 1918 (using English and Dutch/Flemish: Eerste Wereldoorlog)




    Jörg
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    • #3
      This is truly awesome. I was blown away by some of these shots.
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      • #4
        These are really nice. Thanks.
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        • #5
          Cool. Thanks for sharing.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by VJ
            Prokudin-Gorskii (photographer of the Tsar) made colour photographs of Russia around the turn of the previous (!) century:
            The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world—the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution.

            (the technology is quite different from colour film and is also explained; back then the photos couldn't be 'printed' but only projected)
            Jörg
            For all of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos try:

            The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.


            It's got many, many more of his photos, both the combined color images and the seperate R,G, and B frames at full resolution.

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