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Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. He was a Russian photographer that developed probably one of the first color photo processes. In 1910 he was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II to survey and photograph the vast expanses of Russia. He eventually fled to Paris following the Bolshevik seizure of power, where he finally died.
His process involved taking three photographs using three different lens filters, so as to capture exclussively Red, Green, and Blue data. The three slides were then shined onto a wall together to get the full color image, though today we can just put them together with any computer. The US Library of Congress bought what remained of Prokudin-Gorskii's work after he fled Russia (much of his work had been destroyed). I think it is a fascinating lens in the past that we far too often visualize in black and white. The vibrant colors captured are quite the contrast to the usual photos of a glum and gloomy Russia at the turn of the century:
Keep in mind, these pictures are from 1910:
His process involved taking three photographs using three different lens filters, so as to capture exclussively Red, Green, and Blue data. The three slides were then shined onto a wall together to get the full color image, though today we can just put them together with any computer. The US Library of Congress bought what remained of Prokudin-Gorskii's work after he fled Russia (much of his work had been destroyed). I think it is a fascinating lens in the past that we far too often visualize in black and white. The vibrant colors captured are quite the contrast to the usual photos of a glum and gloomy Russia at the turn of the century:
Keep in mind, these pictures are from 1910:
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this dudes art is insane
he did some on the big ass wall in like pakistan or somethin where if you trespass you will be shot and killed
this dudes art is insane
he did some on the big ass wall in like pakistan or somethin where if you trespass you will be shot and killed
First World War Pictures (1914 - 1918)
North-African Soldiers cooking their meal in a village in Oise, France, 1917
(Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud)
Kid soldier in the Great War
Children like this boy had to work - cleaning and digging of trenches
as shown in this picture - and to fight as hard as grown up soldiers.
North-African Soldiers cooking their meal in a village in Oise, France, 1917
(Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud)
Kid soldier in the Great War
Children like this boy had to work - cleaning and digging of trenches
as shown in this picture - and to fight as hard as grown up soldiers.
The boy in the middle is '15 years old hero' Edouard Mina from Lyon, France.
Edouard is an orphan. His 'adoption-parents' next to him call him Petite Bleu, little blue, because of his blue pants that every poilu (common soldier) wears
Jack Cornwall, ship boy (16) on board of HMS Chester.
During the Battle of Jutland in June 1916 his ship was hit and put afire by German shells. In the chaos one gun kept firing at the Germans. It was manned by 16 years old Boy Jack Cornwall. Jack was wounded but he kept on firing until he died. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
Young American sailor of the Great War
In the USA enlisting of underage boys was an old custom. This picture shows a socalled powder monkey, during the Civil War.
Heaven knows how many underage American kids served in the Great War. We only know it didn't end there. In the Second Worldwar the youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, who served with the US Navy. Assigned to the USS South Dakota he was wounded at Santa Cruz and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age.
After the Second Worldwar very young boys were still able to enlist in the American services. This went on until the early fifties. Nowadays the USA is the only country where an association called Veterans of Underage Military Service (VUMS) exists. It was formed in 1991.
American Senator Mike Mansfield was a kid-soldier from the Great War, although not many people know that.
Mansfield was a son of Irish immigrants. In 1917, fourteen years old, he quit school and tried to enlist in the armed forces, but he was turned down.
He then went to the Catholic church where he had been baptized, obtained a copy of his birth certificate, and forged it to show that he was born a few years earlier.
With these papers he was accepted in the Navy and he crossed the Atlantic seven times before officers discovered he was underage and discharged him.
After the war he worked in copper mines, then took high school, then university. He became a professor in Far Eastern history and went into politics.
Mansfield served 34 years in Congress, 24 of those in the Senate (Democrats). He presided over the Senate from 1961 to 1976. The picture on the right was made in that time.
He was an early supporter of the Vietnam War, yet he became one of that war's most persistent critics when he learned that he had been deceived by the government. In 1976 he was appointed ambassador to Japan.
Michael Joseph Mansfield died on 5 October 2001. He was 98 years old. He never told much about his time in the war
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Some think so... this one is also known as the "Maine Monster"... It got hit by a car as it was chasing a cat... by the time some official experts came to do an analysis, the body had already decomposed.... Some experts say its a dog, but I ain't never seen no dog like that... Here go the other pic of it that I really wanted to show, but I couldn't find it the time...
Imagine strollin' around with one of these bad boyz on a leash...
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Imagine strollin' around with one of these bad boyz on a leash...
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