- The Ghosts of World War II: Sergey Larenkov’s computational rephotography carefully overlays past & present. [Via]
- Is that an onion dome, or are you… no, it’s an onion dome. Amazing Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900s. [Via]
- The Denver Post rounds up images of America in Color from 1939-1943. [Via Gary Ferster]
- Lust for leather: The Official Iggy Pop Shirtless Aging Timeline. I’m somewhat speechless.
Thanks, John for the post! I hadn’t seen the “America in Color” work before.
The Prokudin-Gorskii work has always been a great way for me to teach how color works…in Photoshop! At least RGB, as here:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html
And those images were made 50 years(!) after the process of RGB separations was invented by Maxwell and achieved by Sutton:
http://tinyurl.com/2cmwa6z
It reassures film photographers that today’s tech is part of a continuum rather a break with the past.
re: Iggy Pop…I’m 47 and that series was, uh, depressing. Of course I’m as buff as ever, but….