Past life, are not totally in black and white, as demonstrate by these extraordinary collection of colour photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II.
Sergei used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.
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| A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, ca. 1910 |
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| A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain. |
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