MetaFilter posts tagged with photographs and Russia

Picturing Climate Change

netbros — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:54:23 -0800

Ahead of the global climate talks, nine photographers from the photo agency NOOR photographed climate stories from around the world. Their goal: to document some of the causes and consequences, from deforestation to changing sea levels, as well as the people whose lives and jobs are part of that carbon culture. Warming threatens lifestyle of Russian herders | Refugees flee drought, war in East Africa | Greenland’s shrinking ice hurts natives Rising ocean levels threaten Maldives Boon from Canadian oil sands comes with price Amazon rain forest cut for cattle Beetles kill in Canada's warming forest Coal dependence darkens Poland's skies Burning coal deposits pollute lives in India

looking through old photographs

nickyskye — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:08:46 -0800

People sleeping, gently vulnerable and evocative, vintage photographs. Snowball's blog is packed full of interesting photographs: I love this one and this. Naughty Marilyn Monroe [nsfw], retro, kids, teens, from the time of the Russian invasion in Afghanistan, concentration camps.

ferroequinology, the study of iron horses

nickyskye — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:14:20 -0800

Trains of Russia, photos from Pavoroz.com, a site about the railways of Russia, the Baltics and the C.I.S. (Commonwealth of Independent States). More than 50 000 pictures of steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, EMU and DMU trains, draisines, stations, tracks, etc. The collection is updated daily. The Turkestan-Siberian railway. American Railway Slang Russian, CIS and Baltic Railway Map. A variety of train maps of that area, including subways and trolleys. More details of the Trans-Siberian Railway including images of tickets etc. World Railways, As Seen By Russians Yahoo translator

A life at high altitudes

nickyskye — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:36:16 -0800

The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City, houses paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian artist, who spent most of his life on the Indian-Tibetan border, creating evocative images of night and day in the Himalayan Mountains. (more inside)

all-photo.ru

hama7 — Tue, 11 May 2004 12:49:13 -0800

The Most Various Russian Photographs.

jwells — Mon, 07 May 2001 08:46:11 -0800

Early (around 1910) amazing COLOR photographs from Russia by Prokudin-Gorskii, photographer for the Czar. He essentially had three cameras, each with a separate Red, Green, or Blue filter, and snapped the same shot at the same time. So all the "reds" were recorded, in B&W, on one photographic plate, and likewise down the line. Then he could use the filters to recreate the scene and project it onto a screen in color. (more inside) (props to slashdot for the link)