• puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s one of those early color photographs. Basically, a photographer would take three photographs, each with a different color filter. Those photographs were black-and-white, where the value corresponded to the saturation of one of the filter’s colors. They were then projected onto a final image using collotype printing with a different dye for each black-and-white photograph. This process can give you all sorts of colors by mixing three primary colors of dyes, but it’s tricky to make photographs align perfectly. As you can see, there are stripes of cyan, green, and red on the contour of those people, as well as some blur, and that’s because it’s hard to stand still between photographs, or a wind could make your clothes move a little, etc.

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      72·
      1 year ago

      1910 Russia… That was about as good as it was going to get for about a decade, and even then life was likely shit for them. It was just going to get so much worse.

      The revolution actually improved the lives of most Russians, at the expense of making the lives of non-Russians quite a bit worse.

      Then Stalin came to power and promoted the “science” of a guy named Trofim Lysenko. Millions starved to death, and then the Soviets exported the flawed science to China in what had to have been a psyop, and millions more starved.

      Which just lends more weight to the theory that the Soviets, and Stalin in particular, were fond of weaponizing famine, because it happened again and again, always at the expense of people who were not ethnically Russian.