amazing century-old color photos

The Library of Congress is running an “exhibit of color photographs from the 1900s”:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ reconstructed from three-color glass plates taken by a Russian experimental photographer. The “process”:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html is fascinating, but the photos themselves are truly extraordinary. My favorite is “View of the Nilova Monastery”, which looks like more a fairytale castle photo from a 1960s Disney adventure film than pre-revolution Russia.

[Thanks to Patrick for pointing this out to me.]

Posted by Chris in Art on December 14th, 2005 Edit this page's grammar and spelling with Emend.

2 Responses to “amazing century-old color photos”

  1. Deana, on December 14th, 2005 at 12:31 pm Said:

    How stupid am I? My brain is going, “But…but…surely the world wasn’t in COLOR back then!”

  2. Parand T Darugar, on December 14th, 2005 at 6:05 pm Said:

    These are beautiful. I had seen the image on the main page before somewhere.

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