Well, I'm a research geek. :-D Really should have been my profession. I think it was a great question...and something new I learned today. I found the answer at Britannica.com, by the way. :-)
Well, I was going to make myself wait at least an hour before giving the answer, but I'm too impatient :)
sjgleah is actually the closest. The photo is "Wooden Chapel on the Site of Old Belozersk", taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909!
My father has a book of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos, which fascinated me when I was a kid... sometimes scared me just thinking of how eerily real they made Russia in the early 1900s seem to me! There are colour portraits of Tolstoy in that book. It was great to find out last year that there's an online exhibition of his photography now right here. Go and peruse that site and be absolutely amazed!!!
The technique he used actually involved separate glass plates being exposed for each colour. The photo I posted, and the others on that site, have been printed very recently from the plates and colour corrected a bit digitally, so it's sneaky to just show that photo and say it's from 1909. Still, the ones in my dad's book (which is now out of print and quite rare) look just as beautiful and clear, although in some places the plates don't quite match up properly.
Originally posted by lisae: Well, I was going to make myself wait at least an hour before giving the answer, but I'm too impatient :)
sjgleah is actually the closest. The photo is "Wooden Chapel on the Site of Old Belozersk", taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909!
My father has a book of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos, which fascinated me when I was a kid... sometimes scared me just thinking of how eerily real they made Russia in the early 1900s seem to me! There are colour portraits of Tolstoy in that book. It was great to find out last year that there's an online exhibition of his photography now right here. Go and peruse that site and be absolutely amazed!!!
The technique he used actually involved separate glass plates being exposed for each colour. The photo I posted, and the others on that site, have been printed very recently from the plates and colour corrected a bit digitally, so it's sneaky to just show that photo and say it's from 1909. Still, the ones in my dad's book (which is now out of print and quite rare) look just as beautiful and clear, although in some places the plates don't quite match up properly.
Wow, this one just grabbed me. Thanks for posting it, Lisa!
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