Colour photos from 1909 Russia

Amazing pictures from a world we’re usually used to seeing in monochrome

In 1909 Russia a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images by taking multiple shots with red, green and blue filters that could then be comped together on a projector

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