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The first colour photographs of Russia (part 2)

 

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50 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Paris Around 1900 PART 1

 

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50 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Paris Around 1900 PART 2

 

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Glamorous Photos of Classic Beauties With Vespas in the 1960s

 

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Photographs That Capture Life of the US in the 1850s

 

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20 Photos of Harry Houdini, a Famous Magician and Escape Artist in the

 

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Competition for Decorated Trams, Holland, 1908

 

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29 Rare and Amazing Photos Capture City Scenes of Europe in the 1850s

 

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...26 Rare Photos of French People From the 1840s

 

[gorgik9]

This latest post of photos by L.A.H. de Molard is just so interesting and beautiful. The average exposure time in the 1840's must have been many seconds and sometimes minutes, and that's the main reason why the figures in the picture sometimes seem a bit stiff and stilted - they had to do their best to keep absolutely still for (let's say) 40 seconds or otherwise the pic would be a big blur. I don't think people nowadays have any understanding at all about how much of an effort it was to make a good photo in the mid 19th century - today taking a photo is hardly any effort at all.

Thanks golfdelta for this beautiful post!!!

 

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A Cathedral That Defined a City. 20 Rare Photographs of Notre Dame....

 

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....Beautiful photos taken by Émile Zola

 

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Views of Notre Dame and Paris - 1920

 

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Great Portraits of Wales and The Welsh 1865-1885

 

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Take an 1890 Photochrom Tour of Rome

 

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Amazing Pics Capture Everyday Life of Italy in the Mid-19th Century

 

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'Jakob Tuggener's Sensational Pics Of Weapons Factories In Neutral

 

[gorgik9]

Jakob Tuggener - I've never heard of him before, but his work is really interesting and many of the pictures in your post reminds me of so many other great photos of their time (1930s-40s).

Thanks a lot for this great post!!!

 

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Wonderful Cecil Beaton Photographs of the Tyneside Docks in 1943

 

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Robert Doisneau - Seeing Paris In Music