Aren't those incredible!! Someone on my flist linked to those the other day and they just blew me away. I found them a bit disconcerting, and I think it's because our brains have gotten wired to think "color = recent."
The other thing I love about these photos is checking out all the colors in the clothing.
I always wondered about that... and the fact that the colors all seemed so drab in period dramas, as you said. Reminds me of going to visit an historic farmhouse on our trip to the Northeastern US a few years ago... they'd actually taken samples of the remnants of old paint in the house and had them analyzed so they could be accurately reproduced... and then they took one section and restored it to what it would have looked like originally, and it was a riot of bright colors!
BTW, if you go down to the bottom of that page, there's a link to s series of color photos taken in the Russian Empire from 1909-1915. Absolutely fascinating!
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Date: 2010-08-06 04:23 pm (UTC)Aren't those incredible!! Someone on my flist linked to those the other day and they just blew me away. I found them a bit disconcerting, and I think it's because our brains have gotten wired to think "color = recent."
The other thing I love about these photos is checking out all the colors in the clothing.
I always wondered about that... and the fact that the colors all seemed so drab in period dramas, as you said. Reminds me of going to visit an historic farmhouse on our trip to the Northeastern US a few years ago... they'd actually taken samples of the remnants of old paint in the house and had them analyzed so they could be accurately reproduced... and then they took one section and restored it to what it would have looked like originally, and it was a riot of bright colors!
BTW, if you go down to the bottom of that page, there's a link to s series of color photos taken in the Russian Empire from 1909-1915. Absolutely fascinating!