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Extraordinary Russian colour pictures!

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Topic author: Luiz Paracampo

Posted on: 20110709224432

My friend and neighbour Gilberto Amorim,who is often seeing our USRRPhoto forum, sent me this link discoverd by people of Associacao Brasileira da Arte Forografica.
Several colour pictures taken around 1910-1912 by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?ref=nf
Must be seen!
Regards LP

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Reply author: Poolhall

Replied on: 20110710030628

Absolutely stunning stuff- congratulations on finding these and posting them

Samsung GX-10,too many Russian Lenses, A lot of Zenits, an Almaz 103 a few Yashica,and finally a Minox35GT

Reply author: cedricfan

Replied on: 20110710095843

Whew!

Best regards,
Juhani

Reply author: Messsucher

Replied on: 20110710160720

Yes, it is amasing! I saw this earlier. For those who missed the original link to the collection:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok