mjp
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Holy shit, these are amazing.
When I read the headline I thought, "Right, you mean color tinted photography from the early 1900s..." but these are real color photos.
From the way some of them are off-register, it looks like he was using some kind of three color/three camera method to make composite color. In 1909!
Don't know how I never heard of him: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The first image here is a self-portrait...
When I read the headline I thought, "Right, you mean color tinted photography from the early 1900s..." but these are real color photos.
From the way some of them are off-register, it looks like he was using some kind of three color/three camera method to make composite color. In 1909!
Don't know how I never heard of him: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. The first image here is a self-portrait...