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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Tsar or Czar

I can't resist stealing from the Huffington Post, these photos are too good. Taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii between 1909 and 1915 they document the Russian Empire.


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Is it kinda toy to just jack photos from the Huffington Post? I don't think so.


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4 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM

    Is that last one from Gourmet magazine? Pretty radical for a bourgie food rag.

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  2. EliasNovember 20, 2010 at 6:21 PM

    the beauty of the internet, and my encompassing intent with this blog: I know where I stole the image from, but I have no idea it's real provenance

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  3. UnknownNovember 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM

    Huffington Post took this from Boston Big Picture, which posted these 08/20/10...

    Huffington Post: Wrong or Late on Everything

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  4. UnknownNovember 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    reference:

    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

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