This photo is part of a collection of early color photographs done with three shots through colored filters throughout pre-revolutionary Russia commissioned by the tsar from some engineer, IIRC.
The Smithsonian or Library of Congress had them on display a while back, IIRC. They’re really interesting to look through.
kagis
Library of Congress. Looks like they still have the shots online into the Russo-Ukraine War era (I dunno if Russia can ask them to take it down or if Russia just hasn’t bothered or doesn’t want to).
There’s not a lot of color photography from that era, and a lot of Imperial Russia from that era wasn’t all that developed, so it’s some of the earliest color photography you can get of humans living in an an environment that we can mostly only see in black-and-white photos or paintings now.
This photo is part of a collection of early color photographs done with three shots through colored filters throughout pre-revolutionary Russia commissioned by the tsar from some engineer, IIRC.
The Smithsonian or Library of Congress had them on display a while back, IIRC. They’re really interesting to look through.
kagis
Library of Congress. Looks like they still have the shots online into the Russo-Ukraine War era (I dunno if Russia can ask them to take it down or if Russia just hasn’t bothered or doesn’t want to).
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html
The photographer’s name was Prokudin-Gorskii.
There’s not a lot of color photography from that era, and a lot of Imperial Russia from that era wasn’t all that developed, so it’s some of the earliest color photography you can get of humans living in an an environment that we can mostly only see in black-and-white photos or paintings now.