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wanna give a huge shout-out to Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky for gifting us some absolutely stunning colour photographs from Russia in the 1910s.

YEAH YOU READ THAT RIGHT. he took three photographs of each subject, through coloured filters, and then projected the images again through the filters and superimposed them.

and thus, we have colour photography of early 20th century Russia. and it's beautiful.

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an Armenian woman posing in a dark red skirt, a white shirt, and a blue jacket, wearing a multi-coloured hat, on a hillside against a backdrop of trees. her hands are clasped in front of her stomach.
a landscape photograph of Trinity Monastery in Tyumen from 1912. the walls are white, and the domes and spires are green, perhaps made of weathered copper?
Mr. Prokudin-Gorsky himself sat in a rail handcar with four other men on the Murmansk railroad. the other men are wearing some kind of uniform, while Mr. Prokudin-Gorsky wears a suit. the sky is blue and the weather looks fair.
an elderly, bearded man in a formal uniform standing on a raft holding a long punting pole. the raft floats on a river but its chained to the bank. the man's coat is long and grey, buttoned on the right side with a green belt. in this one you can see the effects of taking three separate photographs to composite them; while most things in frame are static and thus line up perfectly, the river is in constant movement, and so the water is separated into clouds of all three colours and looks somewhat oily.

Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)

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