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winterbadgerMany 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.
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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Date: 2008-03-21 09:50 pm (UTC)