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April 25, 2005
Turn-of-the-century technicolour
('Armenian women in holiday attire', S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii)
"A Russian photographer, named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, working in the years just before World War I, developed an ingenious process for creating color image projections. Take three black and white photographs of the same scene, each one through a different colored filter (green, red, and blue, the three additive primaries). Later, using a special projector, project the plates back through the same filters, and get a single color image on the wall. Not exactly a color photograph, but still very, very interesting and quite ahead of its time."
I like this one, this one and this one. I imagine respectable middle-class women having dirty holidays in the Crimea, Chekhov-style. "Fyodor Stepanovich, you are to unhand me at once!" *giggle* *swoon*
Posted by michele at April 25, 2005 3:12 PM
Comments
I didn't notice this when I posted the picture, but I now see in the background the silhouette of what looks very much like a man relieving himself against a tree.
Posted by: Michele at April 27, 2005 4:56 PM