Russia, 100 years ago

[Officer_Charon]

Came across this on another forum I browse... a Russian photographer used a pretty nifty technique for obtaining some fantastically-detailed color photos that you could swear were taken by a digital camera. Stuff is FASCINATING.

Russia in color, a century ago - The Big Picture - Boston.com

 

[Ravenpoe]

This is really, really cool. Thanks for the link.

 

[Dave]

Very fucking cool, man! I had no idea they could do that so far back! I wonder why more people didn't do it.

 

[SpecialKO]

That's amazing! Sweet find, OC.

 

[Reboneer]

On a similar note, here are some pictures of depression era America in colour.

Also, one of the earliest colour films -- .

Amazing stuff.

 

[Baerdog]

Those pictures from Russia are amazing and I was really mesmerized by that early Kodachrome test. For a few minutes there, I may have fallen in love with the last actress.

In the interest of posting more old color stuff, I offer a gallery of color photos from World War One.

 

[Docseverin]

Wow, simply beautiful.

 

[Silver Jelly]

Awesome stuff.

 

[ncts_dodge_man]

I like this site - does both modern and historical stuff:
English Russia

 

[Azurephoenix]

Those "photos" are fascinating... very interesting to see a colour picture of the early 1900's/

 

[@Li3n]

Some of them look very good while others (especially the first river one) look like stuff was photoshoped in...

Still, cool idea, but i'd like to see the b/w originals too.