Colour photos from WW1 era Russia

[Dan76]

Hi all, I just spotted this link on one of my friend's facebook pages:

http://www.damninteresting.com/color-photos-from-the-world-war-i-era

It's the history of a series of pictures by a Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, taken in 1909. Although he only had black & white plates, he developed a system of taking shots through colour filtered plates in order to produce colour renditions of the various scenes.

You can see a whole load of the actual pictures on this website:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/object.html

I always like colour pictures from the 'black and white' era. Most of the media we see from that time is obviously in black and white, and it's strange to see it in colour! When I was little I used to think that the world was actually black & white in the 'olden' days. I used to ask my grandparents what it was like living in black & white

Hope you like it!

edit - just found a gallery of some more! These are from the Western Front in WW1, taken by French photographers (can't find any names).

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

 

[Klopek]

Thanks for the link. I enjoyed the Russian ones. Like you said, we are so used to seeing that era represented in black and white that the colour gives it a whole new dimension.

 

[mercedes]

A really nice find and an interesting insight into colour origins.
Thank you