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Color photo of Russian monks planting potatoes, 1910
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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It's interesting how most of the really early color photography seems to come out of the Russian Empire.
The US library of congress has a nice collection. prokudin had invented a method of taking 3 separate images with r g b filters. https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/about-this-collection/
The man who took these pictures was an early innovator in color photography and patronized by the Tsar, so he had a lot of opportunity. Some very gorgeous work, I love it.