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theotherkingdoms

— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

peaceinthestorm

Claudio Bravo (1936-2011, Chilean) ~ Lily, 1945

[Source: invaluable.com]

unbfacts

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

redladydeath

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

valcun2u

I think this is right up your alley @elodieunderglass they’re all so beautiful.

elodieunderglass

They’re enchanting, thank you so much for thinking of me!

An interesting thing about this seems to be that it would’ve been really difficult to reconstruct these images without digital technology. Although Prokudin-Gorskii photographed his images to be shown in colour, he apparently showed them on a projector - with three coloured filters on projector lenses combining to project a colour image.

Even though the negatives were available historically, the actual recreation of the intended images seems to have been driven by digital photo editing: Making Color Images - The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

A half-completed thought here: “there are many lenses for looking at the world, some of which we haven’t retained. Which other ones may we have forgotten? what can we recover?”

anthonysperkins

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.”

Happy birthday, Paul Newman!! Jan. 26, 1925 – Sept. 26, 2008