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Old Color
Monday, May 07, 2001
Fresh from Memepool and Slashdot comes Color photography from the 1910s. Turns out this guy did what several current photographers (links escape me at the moment) are doing, which is to take three b/w pictures with a red, green, or blue gel in front of the lens. While current practitioners will combine the three images digitally or on color print paper Sergei, not having that luxury, would project each image with a light projector and a color bulb. Some of the photos, reconstructed by the Library of Congress, are absolutely stunning, and are powerful reminders that just because we look at that era through a monochromatic lens, we shouldn't forget that it was just as vibrant (in some cases more so) than our present day. Makes the past seem that much more real...
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