It’s almost eerie seeing these photos in color from times past. We are so used to seeing them in black and white that it almost seems “wrong” to see them in color. Very interesting emotions.
Wow-notice how skinny everybody is? No big macs back then! Also noted: why the reddish cast to the prints? Last time I looked at my family album, Kodachrome prints from the late 1940’s have a yellowish cast, and many are bluish-I take that the red dyes used in Kodachrome were unstable, and break down with time. The Prokudin-Gorskii prints are wonderful-and due to the process used, totally stable. They really give us a nice look into a vanished world!
How d you define “high resolution”? Is Maxwell’s “first color photograph” high enough?
http://www.amazon.com/First-Color-Photograph-James-Maxwell/dp/B005HYDRS6
It arguably wasn’t the first color photograph – I’ve read of an example of what would now be called Lippmann photography that was made before this (and before Lipmann ever did it)