As Iwas preparing for the “Retro Color. Technologies and art” lecture, I stumbled across a remarkable branch where people put up scans of old color film from home archives. Some pictures are so heart-warming, I couldn’t resist getting a selection to wax nostalgic about. Unfortunately, I don’t have old color film of my own, although even back then I took, developed and even printed images in color. Here you get mostly ORWO from the German Democratic Republic, incredibly popular in the USSr in the 70s and 80s. There was actually very little alternative for color, except SVEMA and sometimes KODAK, if you could get it. Here I was more interested in color than mementos, but it’s still an impressive selection.
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Pavel Kosenko 
These are delightful Pavel – all of them. Not just for the content but for the sweet, subtle color. What a pleasure. Glad you sent them.
I think they look beautiful.
The content is great and the color is so soft that it makes for beautiful photographs. Thank you for posting them.
I’M ENCHANTED WITH THE SOVIET ERA SLIDES. THE CLOSE-UPS OF THE FACES, THE GARMENTS THEY ARE
WEARING AND ALL THE BACKGROUND SCENES THAT
ARE NEW TO ME. KEEP THEM COMING-WONDERFUL.
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