Early color photos by the pioneer color photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

[Pallantides]

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky


An undated color photograph between 1905 and 1915


Alim Khan (1880–1944), emir of Bukhara


Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russia, 1915


Early color photograph as part of Sergey's work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915


Monastery of St. Nilus on Stolbny Island in Lake Seliger near Ostashkov, ca. 1910


1907 prison in Afghanistan


Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. 1910

[Odovacar]

Arent these photos too good for such an early period? And they are coloured too..

[Pallantides]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_...okudin-Gorskii

[Trax]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48512

[Pallantides]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48512

damn...

[RZZZA]

it's still really amazing, i cant get over it

[Trax]

I find those pics highly disturbing, they remind me our own complete insignificance in a very sobering way.

[RZZZA]

I think thats just because in those days nobody prompted you to say "cheese" or to make a silly face or a lame pose when they took your picture.


so they all look really somber, serious and eerie

[the_mango55]

Amazing photography.