Bird’s Eye: Prokudin Gorsky made amazing colour photos, before the invention of colour film and before the Russian Revolution. His photos form an interesting contrast to a 1909 black and white set of shots of Moscow. And at the other end of the country, “Pure Kamchatka” is forbidding and awesome. (English Russia’s ads, not so pure, not so awesome. It’s the net, innit?)
His process used a camera that took a series of three monochrome pictures in sequence, each through a different-colored filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly colored light, it was possible to reconstruct the original color scene. Any stray movement within the camera’s field of view showed up in the prints as multiple “ghosted” images, since the red, green and blue images were taken of the subject at slightly different times. (from Wikipedia)
* Vintage Photographs of Moscow 1909 a set on Flickr
In 1909 my great-grandfather accompanied a group of American champion trotting horses on an exhibition tour Moscow, Russia …. During the trip, he took over 400 pictures with a Graflex box camera, wrote articles for The Horse Review, and was arrested several times in Russia and Germany for taking unauthorized pictures. … I inherited the original photographs in a leather bound album titled Snap Shots Along the Invasion Route by an American Queen and Her Court. The American Queen was the horse Lou Dillon, the first harness horse to break the 2 minute mile.
* Pure Nature Of Kamchatka English Russia
