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[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it's one of those early color photographs. Basically, a photographer would take three photographs, each with a different color filter. Those photographs were black-and-white, where the value corresponded to the saturation of one of the filter's colors. They were then projected onto a final image using collotype printing with a different dye for each black-and-white photograph. This process can give you all sorts of colors by mixing three primary colors of dyes, but it's tricky to make photographs align perfectly. As you can see, there are stripes of cyan, green, and red on the contour of those people, as well as some blur, and that's because it's hard to stand still between photographs, or a wind could make your clothes move a little, etc.

[-] bigbluealien@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

The photographer is Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of colour photography done just as you described

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That is so cool. Thank you.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

a photographer would take three photographs, each with a different color filter

on three different glass plates nonetheless. the images he captured are as breathtaking as the technology used.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Dad's overcoat looks super cozy, bring these back pls

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

And her jacket, so tight & puffy at the same time, love it

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Everyone looks so happy, it is heart warming!

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

1910 Russia... That was about as good as it was going to get for about a decade, and even then life was likely shit for them. It was just going to get so much worse.

The revolution actually improved the lives of most Russians, at the expense of making the lives of non-Russians quite a bit worse.

Then Stalin came to power and promoted the "science" of a guy named Trofim Lysenko. Millions starved to death, and then the Soviets exported the flawed science to China in what had to have been a psyop, and millions more starved.

Which just lends more weight to the theory that the Soviets, and Stalin in particular, were fond of weaponizing famine, because it happened again and again, always at the expense of people who were not ethnically Russian.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I mean, I actually did get that impression, quite content too.

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