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Andy Kaplan-Myrth

Andy is an internet policy advisor with the Government of Canada, with a background in technology law and an interest in how collaborative and social technologies are reshaping industries, governments, societies and the world. See more from me at http://kaplan-myrth.ca.

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August 26th, 3:45pm 0 comments

Russia in colour photos, a century ago

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You must see this -- it's absolutely incredible. Photographer Sergei Mikhailovich travelled around Russia in the early 20th Century taking colour photographs. He'd take three black and white images in a row with red, green and blue filters and then recombine them later with projectors. Interestingly, the Jewish boys in one image are in coloured robes, not black. I wonder if modern ideas of what is traditional is partly shaped by the black and white photos we mostly see?

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