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Oct. 28th, 2006 12:48 amSo... It started when I read this post by Doc Searls, which quoted this post by Stephen Lewis, and as I looked over Stephen's page, I saw this post that pointed to a fascinating exhibit at a Dutch museum of the work of Bernard Eilers.
Eilers turns out to be something like Prokudin-Gorskii -- that is, they each came up with ways of taking photographs in individual colors that can then be made into full-color images, long before you're used to seeing such images. (One of the examples from Prokudin-Gorskii is this one of the Nilova monastery, taken in 1910.)
This image by Eilers is just haunting to me somehow. Maybe it's the blue neon where one is so used to the black-and-white glow, maybe it's the modern architecture/art deco scene turned to life, I don't know:
You can get the original full-size image here. More information on the image can be found here. No direct citation of the year is given, but based on the browse by year page, and given they say it's "early", I'd guess it's from 1920-1925.
Eilers turns out to be something like Prokudin-Gorskii -- that is, they each came up with ways of taking photographs in individual colors that can then be made into full-color images, long before you're used to seeing such images. (One of the examples from Prokudin-Gorskii is this one of the Nilova monastery, taken in 1910.)
This image by Eilers is just haunting to me somehow. Maybe it's the blue neon where one is so used to the black-and-white glow, maybe it's the modern architecture/art deco scene turned to life, I don't know:
You can get the original full-size image here. More information on the image can be found here. No direct citation of the year is given, but based on the browse by year page, and given they say it's "early", I'd guess it's from 1920-1925.
