November 21, 2004

  • Through tribe.net I found this page which is a gallery of color photographs from the time of Czarist Russia. The process involves three exposures, one each for red, green, and blue, which are then projected through three filters to reassemble the color.

    The photographer is Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who invented the process and took the pictures between 1909 and 1915, to create a teaching aid for school children.

    These images ended up in the US Library of Congress, which has a web site devoted to them. The curious can find out how you start with three black and white exposures and end up with one color picture.

    Be sure and check out the Architecture section. Especially this and this.

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