100 year old colour photographs - Amazing, but ...

[whitecat]

Fantastic links, thanks.

 

[Sparrow]

Digital eh? ... that settles it then, glass-plates are dead

 

[j j]

I heard on RFF that glass plates are not dead.

 

[John Lawrence]

I think the BBC journalist who wrote the caption for slide number 5 in this series from The Prokudi Gorskii Collection must be about 16 years old:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-17449958

Everyone at the BBC is 16 years old. 🙂

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/m...t-gives-hope-to-older-presenters-2182233.html

John

 

[zwarte_kat]

Thanks for this link, I found it really interesting. Also the boston.com one. Amazing pictures! They make me want to try large format :0

 

[kermaier]

It was only after the advent of digital photography, however, that it became possible to create sharp colour prints.

Wow...now I know what I'm doing wrong...
Guess I'll stick to B&W...

This is a misquote. The full sentence in that caption reads "It was only after the advent of digital photography, however, that it became possible to create high quality colour prints of Prokudin-Gorskii's work." [emphasis mine] Sheesh.

 

[seakayaker1]

The majority of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) glass plates and other photographs where purchased by the U.S. Library of Congress after WWII from his children.

The collection can be viewed online at http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

For a moment in time he had the Russian Empire opened up for him by the Czar and came to a crash with the revolution.

 

[Pherdinand]

why would you end the quote half way and start making up your complaint story?
And funny is, many here seem not to care what actually the origina quote says but build a case of sarcastic i-know-it-better on the misquoted sentence

sheesh indeed

 

[kermaier]

But very cool photos, at any rate!

 

[freeranger]

This is a misquote. The full sentence in that caption reads "It was only after the advent of digital photography, however, that it became possible to create high quality colour prints of Prokudin-Gorskii's work." [emphasis mine] Sheesh.

Actually It wasn't a misqote. Since my original post the BBC have edited the comment to clarify the intended meaning...and the pedant that resides within me can now ease itself into a blissful slumber. Hoorah!

 

[mfunnell]

Actually It wasn't a misqote. Since my original post the BBC have edited the comment to clarify the intended meaning...

Sure have. I captured the original, unedited, BBC version and it matches your recollection.

...the pedant that resides within me can now ease itself into a blissful slumber. Hoorah!

Me too.

...Mike