Amazing Pictures

[kirarakim]

I don't think I will be able to finish that 5-Day Meme today after all. Sorry about that! But instead I found something pretty amazing (at least I think so).

These are color photographs from Russia from 1909-1912. The images look breathtaking

"In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic

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[kirarakim]

Yes that is what is so special about them. You can see glimpses of people from the past and the color makes them come even more alive.

[shorty_boing]

Thank you for posting these photographs! They are more than amazing, indeed, and not just from a technical point of view!

[kirarakim]

When I was looking at the pictures I kept wondering who were these people, how did they live their lives, and so forth, I am so thankful something like this is preserved for us to see.

[shorty_boing]

Plus this always gets me thinking about the things that we keep on complaining about today… in comparison to what people had to put up with back then. And on the other hand, there are places in Siberia (well, not only there, of course...), where people still live like they used to a hundred years ago and they are happier than we will ever able to be.

It is so (for lack of a better word) sad to know how these people would have to suffer in the coming years and decades, while they had no idea what was yet to come…

[avianthropy]

Wow . . . I can't stop looking at them *_*

[kirarakim]

I know I can't either!

[kurozukin_a]

Those are incredible! They look so real and alive. Sometimes it's easy to forget that people in old times saw all the same colors we do, that the world was not, in fact, grainy and sepia-colored until the 1960s. XD

Is it ok if I post the link on twitter?

[kirarakim]

Sure and thanks for asking (but could you just post the link to the article?) :)

Yes because we always see everything without color it's hard to imagine the colors back then. The colors were so much brighter and varied than I could have imagined.

that the world was not, in fact, grainy and sepia-colored until the 1960s. XD

Ha Ha well speaking of that I actually think color films (and they were around for awhile before that) look better back then. At least when they were done with 3 Strip technicolor. :D

[zauberer_sirin]

Russians do it better.

[kirarakim]

Ha Ha they did didn't they. XD