incredibly cool!

[winterbadger]

Many thanks to my friend Nick for this link to The Empire That Was.

A Russian photographer in 1907 perfected a technique of taking three black and white photos through red, green, and purple colored lenses and then projecting the developed images back through colored lenses and combining the three projected images onto a screen. Did you get that? Anyway, they were the world's first color photographs. He was hired by Czar Nicholas II to take photographs of the Russian empire and they are quite interesting--color photographs decades before they were common.

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[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is hella cool.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! I really appreciate all the effort that must have gone into the making of the original photographs as well as the digital reconstructions. That is so cool! Thanks!

[wolfette]

very impressive. I may send that link to my Dad.

[winterbadger]

I thought you in particular, and maybe Forest, would like it.

My mum must have a book of his work or with his work in it, because a couple of those photos are very familiar (like the emir of Samarkand).

[forest.livejournal.com]

Erm , the first documented and proven case of colour photography was back in 1861 by a Thomas Sutton assisted by Maxwell.

Heres the Wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

and another page with more detail.

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/the-first-color-photograph-1961.html

I have heard about various experiements in colour photography prior to 1861 as well but can't seem to lay my hands on the bookmarked page right now.

ps, heres the link to Robert Leggat's history of early photography, there is a good couple of hours of interesting reading on his site. I found it invaluble when I was at college studying photography a while back.

http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/index.html

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

wow, beautiful.

Film rather than photographs, but it reminded me of Friese-Green http://www.netribution.co.uk/2/content/view/435/193/

[winterbadger]

oh, very cool! I'd never heard of him...