{"id":24161,"date":"2010-08-26T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=5942"},"modified":"2010-08-26T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T08:11:18","slug":"the-past-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/26\/the-past-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"The past in color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I have a weird mental problem whereby my visual model of the past is strongly shaped by the constraints on the various representational modes which preserve images from a particular era. For example, the paintings of the 18th century shape how I imagine the 18th century, while the black and white photos of the early 20th century tend to drain color out of that period from my mind&#8217;s eye. So it&#8217;s always of interest to me when extremely old color photographs are discovered. A reminder to my subconscious that the past looked just like the present in many ways. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/08\/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html\">this set<\/a> from <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> are so good that it&#8217;s mind blowing. All the images are from between 1909 and 1912, and within the boundaries of the Russian Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-5942\"><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5944\" title=\"p24_00021067\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/08\/p24_000210671.jpg\" alt=\"p24_00021067\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" \/><em>Image Credit: Prokudin-Gorskii Collection<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I have a weird mental problem whereby my visual model of the past is strongly shaped by the constraints on the various representational modes which preserve images from a particular era. For example, the paintings of the 18th century shape how I imagine the 18th century, while the black [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24643,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24161\/revisions\/24643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}