photos of Russian empire

[Elena Gapova]

Thanks to everyone for the explanations. I initially missed this information
on the site.

Still, there is absolutely no way that initial images, with all those color
filters, could look like they do now (the colours in the "Gone with the
Wind", the first color movie from late 1930-s, are much cruder; the first
color photo (of Hitler) dates back to 1942). So this is partially
"constructing the authenticity" (I do not know if this matters at all and am
aware that that was not the curators' intention).

e.g.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Goldfarb <dgoldfar at BARNARD.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 24 May 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] photos of Russian empire


> They were done with a process involving three black and white exposures
> through different color filters, much the way that color separations for
> the pre-digital printing industry were done, and the three images were
> combined to produce the final color image.  For the modern exhibition, the
> images were scanned and combined digitally.
>
> David A. Goldfarb
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Slavic Languages
> Barnard College
> Columbia University
> 3009 Broadway                           dgoldfarb at barnard.edu
> New York, NY 10027-6598                 http://www.echonyc.com/~goldfarb
>

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