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        9 months ago

        It’s not a glitchy re-colourisation as such. This and many other photos were taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky using black and white film and red, green and blue filters. These were then reprojected together to make a colour photograph.

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            9 months ago

            Exactly that. And the colour fringing around objects such as the man and the pole he’s holding isn’t because of lens chromatic aberration, it’s just movement between exposures.