Color Reconstruction for Photographs in Russia from 1900

This photo is from sometime before the Russian October Revolution, probably taken around 1900 by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorsky. Even though color photography was not technically possible at the time, he travelled Russia taking photographs in triplets, with each frame having a different color filter - Red, Green, blue. Prokudin-Gorsky never saw his collection of photographs in color. However thousands of the original negatives that survied have been scanned and recombined to reconstruct the color that he was so clever to have captured a century ago. The result? Stunning. Color images that look like they were taken yesterday. Looking at the images has the same feeling like looking back through time, yet back in time through the standards of image reproduction that we are accustomed to today. No black and whites, no yellow paper. Fascinating stuff. The entire collection has been scanned and is online.