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  • scarabin10

    I always liked this photo ‘cause he was just like us, fiddling around with his gear and seeing what he could come up with.

    Shot in 1912.

    Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky documented the Russian empire in color using a process involving 3 separate photos, each with a R G or B filter he later combined

    • nice findutopian
    • Is that from the sets of the folk in crazy colourful costumes? Really loved those images.PhanLo
    • The slight offset in the RGB makes them look modern https://tile.loc.gov… Love the borders too.PhanLo
    • This image looks like some AI generated image stitched together from various other photos that trained the AI...somehow
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    • @scarabin great find actually!
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    • I love how he wore a full suit out there.monospaced
    • Just a man with his stick. No smartphone in sight.NBQ00
    • Nuclear waste free rivers in Russia, yes it must be 1912OBBTKN
    • Yeah i wanna go hiking in a full suitscarabin
    • I imagine that bamboo would have been quite exotic at the timescarabin

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