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June 16, 2003
New Camera, World's First Color Photography, and SARS Art Project
I got a great new camera recently. The Canon S400 digital camera. I know that you serious photographers out there will probably scoff at my choice, but I just wanted a small, convenient camera that I could take everywhere with me. The best thing about this camera is that I actually use it all the time. Maybe I'll include pictures on this site pretty soon.
Speaking of pictures, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii may have been the first color photographer in history. Sergei was a photographer to Tsar Nicholas II, and was able to photographically document the Russian empire pre-World War I. Although there was no color photography at the time, Sergei intended for his images to be seen in color because he captured each image in three stages, using red, green, and blue filters. The Library of Congress was able to take those composites and combine them to produce color photographs. This exhibit is absolutely fascinating. Too bad it was two years ago.
Another exhibit worth mentioning is the SARS Art Project. The title of the exhibit is self-explanatory. Some of these images are actually quite humorous.
Posted by Kathy at June 16, 2003 04:59 PM