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Hughbearson


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Hi, returning (sort of) to my last post in this section about the Uzbekistani soldiers uniform, and Sergey-Prokudin-Gorsky's early colour photography, I noticed on this photo (which many of you may have seen before) that the Russian guard on the left of the hut, is wearing the old 1894 (is that the date?) uniform. I heard about some soldiers in the army being quite poor on uniform supplies, or do you think that prison guards wore these old ones?

-- Edited by Hughbearson on Monday 28th of June 2010 04:44:52 PM

-- Edited by Hughbearson on Monday 28th of June 2010 04:45:03 PM

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amazing pictures! First glance one would think they are a hoax, or an re-enactment thing.
But mr. Gorsky must have been his time ahead, using a rather complicated and time-consuming technique in making his color pictures.

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Hi you may find these links interesting.... the technique is actually very simple, take three photos on black and white plates simultaneously each with a different colour filter(the sharpness of the images would suggest to me they were taken at the same time), and project the images through a magic Lantern or a similar machine using the same three filters.... to produce a colour image....

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

The Magic lantern projector was widely used at the time but is now largely forgotten tecnology....

http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/index.html

The recent film the Illusionist is pretty good and well worth watching although of course its fiction....the film The Brothers Grim also uses some of the history...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Gaspard_Robert

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aha..not that complicated then? (The magic lantern is probably invented by Christiaan Huygens, Dutch..(sorry) though some say DaVinci invented the thing which of course he did not). Some years ago David Hockney revealed his theory on lenses in artwork, 'proving' that many old masters projected their objects in a way still done en rather much en vogue today, with slides, and beamers. He could be right: DaVinci again, Albrecht Durer and probably others explained with drawings the modus operandi.
Apart from the projection: some work must have been done in developping the picture in color? I am not much of a photographer I am afraid, just have some basic knowledge of the (non digital) black and white stuff.
To hold the theme on topic a picture of a ww1 Eastman Kodak aerial camera. This is the Graflex suited for oblique shooting. It has no bellows, and double 4x5 inch cassettes.
This one is British. (source Deutsches Historischen Museums Berlin)
Thanks for the leads!
regards, Kieffer


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