The Library of Congress is carrying an exhibition of marvelous color photographs from Tsarist Russia. The detail and color on these images is so rich that it's hard to believe they were recorded nearly 100 years ago. One gets an eerie feeling looking into the faces of the people, and knowing that all of them are long dead, even the children. More disturbing still is the knowledge one has of what was shortly to come - war, terror and famine on such a scale as to sweep away forever most of the country on display here. The Bolshevik Revolution was the start of the greatest tragedy in human history.
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Thanks for linking to this, Abiola. Those are some of the most hypnotically beautiful images I've ever seen. There's an almost painterly quality to them, a sort of hyper-realism. Great stuff.
Posted by: Pearsall Helms | January 31, 2005 at 03:06 AM
My assumption is that they are colorized? The color added later. Is that so?
Posted by: eoin | January 31, 2005 at 12:26 PM
"My assumption is that they are colorized? The color added later. Is that so?"
No. Look at this link:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html
Fascinating stuff. Thanks.
Posted by: Kevin Donoghue | January 31, 2005 at 01:32 PM