{"id":8,"date":"2001-06-08T05:13:20","date_gmt":"2001-06-08T12:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2001-06-08T05:13:20","modified_gmt":"2001-06-08T12:13:20","slug":"coolest-photography-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2001\/06\/coolest-photography-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolest photography site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stefangeens.com\/graphics\/blog\/locpic.jpg?resize=131%2C169\" width=\"131\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\">My favorite site on the internet at the moment: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer for Czar Nicholas II, made color (!) pictures years before World War I using an ingenious system of colored lenses and multiple exposures. They&#8217;ve been rediscovered and are on exhibit at the Library of Congress and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/empire\/\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To me, anything before World War II has a definite black and white feel to it. To see color pictures of an era before color is simply bizarre\u2014it forces a contemporary sheen back onto long-dead people and situations. Interestingly, it seems easier not to judge historical actions of black and white people; but take a color picture of them, and the morality of their actions, such as those of the Emir of Bukhara (above), become suddenly relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a color photograph of Alexander the Great in an unposed moment, or a video clip of Vercingetorix. Would we think of them differently? We have such things of Hitler\u2014does the banality of Hitler relaxing in a color documentary bring the magnitude of his crimes into even greater focus?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>[Sat, Jul 13 2002 &#8211; 06:22] Manuel <\/b> (<a href=\"mailto:manuel_terranova@yahoo.com\">email<\/a>) I agree, there&#8217;s something about black and white that immediately removes from my-private-zeitgeist.  Black and white provides a veneer or prophylactic effect.  In calor, these photos give you a different perspective&#8230;for one, the color makes you think about the people&#8217;s lives at that very instant&#8230;then you look at the photograph date and realize they are already dead.  I particularly liked the schoolchildren on the side of a hill photo. <!-- comment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite site on the internet at the moment: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer for Czar Nicholas II, made color (!) pictures years before World War I using an ingenious system of colored lenses and multiple exposures. They&#8217;ve been rediscovered and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2001\/06\/coolest-photography-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}