These images were the first of their kind. Cameras had been in use since the first half of the nineteenth century, but color was still a long way off. Around 1905, a Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, invented the coloring technique which produced these images. They are the first of their kind, and to my eye, look better than what expensive cameras can do today. Inspiration points to David Jaffe.
