Color photos from pre-WW1

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Color photos from pre-WW1

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http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/20 ... rly-1900s/
It's color photos of Russia in the early 20th century, and they're pretty amazing. They look almost as high quality as modern photographs!
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I only saw one person :Ding. kinda anyway he could have been squinting.
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amazing work! :shock:
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They look like they're in 3D.
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Thanks for sharing these. I'm stunned :shock:
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Those are great. I can't find it now but I saw some color WW1 photos a while back. Apparently only three photographers took color photos during WW1...or something like that.
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Wow, that is really crazy stuff... Thanks for posting this, I'm sure my wife will find them to be interesting as well.
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It is a neat system. His camera would take four monochrome pictures at once - diifferent filters. And would composite them in post. So brilliant. Autochrome Lumiere is a similar system that hte French used and took color photos of WWI:
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

Gorsky also has several coffee table books of pictures from this timeframe if you are interested in his works.
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Awesome, reminds me of this photo. Granted its not as old, but its still cool and that's a pretty good shot as I'm sure those cars were moving. Be sure to check out the full resolution version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Londo ... rfield.jpg
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I'm glad that there are so many of them!
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