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12/07/2009 11:17:55 AM · #1 |
i searched a little and didn't find this already posted. apologies if it was
//blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/
Message edited by author 2009-12-07 11:18:53. |
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12/07/2009 11:21:36 AM · #2 |
Oh, those are terrific. Thanks for the link.
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12/07/2009 12:04:38 PM · #3 |
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12/07/2009 12:06:28 PM · #4 |
| Wonderful. Thanks for the link. |
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12/07/2009 01:01:16 PM · #5 |
I wonder how many of those churches were destroyed in the revolution to come. Did he just like shooting picture of churches? or did he know what was coming?
Great photos. Found them really interesting with all four of my grandparents emigrating from Russia about a decade after these were taken.
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12/07/2009 01:15:32 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I wonder how many of those churches were destroyed in the revolution to come. Did he just like shooting picture of churches? or did he know what was coming?
Great photos. Found them really interesting with all four of my grandparents emigrating from Russia about a decade after these were taken. |
when they got here, did they americanize their name from achookov to achoo? |
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12/07/2009 01:20:11 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by desertoddity:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I wonder how many of those churches were destroyed in the revolution to come. Did he just like shooting picture of churches? or did he know what was coming?
Great photos. Found them really interesting with all four of my grandparents emigrating from Russia about a decade after these were taken. |
when they got here, did they americanize their name from achookov to achoo? |
LOL. Something like that. Actually they all spoke German and were Mennonites living in Russia. But they were persecuted for many reasons (being foreigners, being religious, being pacifists, having land they turned desirable, you name it). My great grandmother's journal is an amazing read. To bad I don't have the years before 1922 as my great-grandfather was forced to hastily burn them while my great-grandmother stalled the red army soldiers at the door with food.
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12/07/2009 01:22:21 PM · #8 |
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12/07/2009 01:23:10 PM · #9 |
Has anyone used the word "stunning" yet?
No?
Okay....stunning. |
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12/07/2009 01:25:38 PM · #10 |
A great find. Fascinating link with a time only recently passed, yet so different from what most of us experience now.
R. |
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12/07/2009 02:30:39 PM · #11 |
fascinating subject that wonderfully resurfaces from time to time ;-)
earlier thread
another thread
i'm just glad i have my copy of the book (even though it's a soft cover). |
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12/07/2009 02:54:06 PM · #12 |
| It's interesting to me how some pictures suffer horrendous chromatic abberation while others don't. I suppose it was more a product of the lens he used at the time? I never really pictured photogs of the day having different lenses to uses. |
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12/07/2009 03:12:27 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
It's interesting to me how some pictures suffer horrendous chromatic abberation while others don't. I suppose it was more a product of the lens he used at the time? I never really pictured photogs of the day having different lenses to uses. |
it wasn't as much the lens as it was the process. he used three separate plates, each with its own set of filters. the plates were typically exposed 1" a part (they were dropped into place) for the exposure. obviously, he was limited to non-moving subjects ;-) some of what you see are essentially "outtakes," images shot that weren't necessarily technically perfect, but, due to the nature of the subject, images that couldn't be thrown away. in some ways, the beauty is in the imperfection.
(the book is an incredible read, you'd really enjoy it...)
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12/07/2009 03:29:04 PM · #14 |
Really, interesting Shannon...my family (mother's side) came from Russia and like all good people that come from Russia...we are related to the Czar...lol...but seriously my grandfather was a soldier in the Russian Empire and his father before him (as the story goes my grandfather played under the Czar's Throne). He and my grandmother left from Odessa, Russia and traveled to Max, ND (of all places) in 1907....it is a fascinating story...I just don't buy into the Czar thing all the much...I have seen the picture of there boat crew before...
Thanks again for sharing...wonderful pictures... |
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12/07/2009 05:24:47 PM · #15 |
In an odd sort of way if these photos weren't coloured I wouldn't have been able to appreciate them as much as I have. You sort of expect old pictures to be b/w and seeing them as coloured makes me relate to them more. I can see the people and imagine them much more clearly which is kind of surreal.
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12/07/2009 05:39:51 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by UrfaTheGreat:
In an odd sort of way if these photos weren't coloured I wouldn't have been able to appreciate them as much as I have. You sort of expect old pictures to be b/w and seeing them as coloured makes me relate to them more. I can see the people and imagine them much more clearly which is kind of surreal. |
i can relate to this sentiment. on one hand, Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii's was a pioneer. on the other hand, it had a lot to do with what he was photographing.
here's a link to the most comprehensive explanation of the science of color photography that will put it all in a proper perspective for you. |
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12/07/2009 08:01:07 PM · #17 |
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08/22/2010 05:22:16 AM · #18 |
N/T
Message edited by author 2010-08-22 15:25:18. |
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