Alaskaball [comrade/them]M to main • 2 months agoChatbots and paintbots are going to wholesale begin fabricating human history and the only way to verify its truth is by turning to pre-AI devolution history booksimagemessage-square31 fedilinkarrow-up1118
arrow-up1118imageChatbots and paintbots are going to wholesale begin fabricating human history and the only way to verify its truth is by turning to pre-AI devolution history booksAlaskaball [comrade/them]M to main • 2 months agomessage-square31 Commentsfedilink
minus-squarebazingabrain [comrade/them]hexbear10·2 months agothat was a russian photographer, who impressed tsar nicolas 2 so much he was officially commissioned to do a tour of the empire and take as many photographs he could. I havent found a complete source for his pics online yet. link
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]hexbear6·2 months agothese aren't complete and you may already be familiar, but for anyone interested: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color/ https://tmora.org/online-exhibitions/photographer-to-the-tsar-revealing-the-silk-road/sergei-m-prokudin-gorskii/ https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sergei-prokudin-gorskii link
that was a russian photographer, who impressed tsar nicolas 2 so much he was officially commissioned to do a tour of the empire and take as many photographs he could. I havent found a complete source for his pics online yet.
these aren't complete and you may already be familiar, but for anyone interested:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color/
https://tmora.org/online-exhibitions/photographer-to-the-tsar-revealing-the-silk-road/sergei-m-prokudin-gorskii/
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sergei-prokudin-gorskii