Some guy is taking photographs today using methods from 160 years ago

[Pluto]

It's really really cool and kinda fucks with your brain seeing stuff like this:





Also helps to humanize all those people in the actually old photos.

Check it out!
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[AnHero]

super cool
The other end of this wonderful spectrum is old photos that are well preserved enough or upscaled to look modern.

 

[Pluto]

super cool
The other end of this wonderful spectrum is old photos that are well preserved enough or upscaled to look modern.

I think the photos of Czarist Russia by that one guy are the gold standard when it comes to this stuff.
I especially love his self-portrait:

He just looks so... normal.
Literally just a guy.
I really can't explain why it amazes me every time.

 

[Yajuu-senpai]

Autochrome Lumière photographs of the 1900s-1910s, they used potato starch for these