Rare Early Color 1900s Paris Photos

[jsrockit]

Here:

http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/

 

[randolph45]

Thanks for the link🙂

 

[DominikDUK]

Thank you for the link, the Autochrome process is really beautiful. Too Bad it doesn't exist anymore

 

[daveleo]

Very enjoyable !
Thanks.

 

[Greyscale]

Thank you for the share. It is strange to think of the early part of the last century in anything other than black and white. I remember seeing some even earlier color photos of Tsarist Russia that were absolutely incredible, but I cant seem to find the link.


ETA found the link

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...orskiis-color-photos-of-russia-1907-1915.html

 

[jsrockit]

Russian ones... http://blogs.denverpost.com/capture...tography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/544/

I just love how adding color to these images make the people in the photos not seem as distant (as far into the past) as B&W does.

 

[Harry Lime]

Autochrome!

Someone tried to reverse engineer the process a few years ago and it was more difficult than anticipated. Did anyone hear if they succeeded?

 

[Greyscale]

More here:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

 

[dabick42]

Thanks for the link. Very enjoyable !

 

[Haigh]

Thanks for that. It was wonderful to see how the city I have visited used to look.

 

[DominikDUK]

Autochrome!
Someone tried to reverse engineer the process a few years ago and it was more difficult than anticipated. Did anyone hear if they succeeded?

Many people tried to recreate the process and failed miserably, The institut Lumiere had some success but it's not perfect.

 

[Ming Rider]

You can see why photographers were so anti-color when it was introduced.

As they said, "Black and White is more natural."

 

[sevo]

Many people tried to recreate the process and failed miserably, The institut Lumiere had some success but it's not perfect.

http://www.autochromes.fr/english/last.html exists as well. The knowledge is around, the system had been patented, published, licensed, imitated and was around just for longer than C41. Polaroid had a Autochrome-derived instant colour slide system up until a decade ago.

The problem with DIY attempts is that you do not only have to coat a filter layer (not that hard), but have to coat a panchromatic emulsion on top of that - making small amounts of well-sensitized emulsions and coating in darkness so far have been stumbling blocks for the DIY dry plate community even without the added complexity of a filter layer. But I expect that the progresses in 3D printing eventually will make small automated coating machines a reality, and once there is a market, some maker will distribute a suitable emulsion.

 

[DominikDUK]

Thank you Sevo I forgot about autochrome.fr and the Albert Kahn collection. The problem isn't so much the emulsion but the color raster and the required pressure.

Ming photographers weren't anti color they just didn't have the money to afford autochrome plates as they were extremely expensive and had a very low sensibility.
B/W was a lot faster and less expensive. Heinrich Kühn and other photographers used Autochromes and made superb photographs with them.

 

[Ming Rider]

Hi Dominik,

'Anti-color' lasted a relatively short while (1900 - 1970), though mainly in the Art Photography area. I was talking more of the words of Stephen Shore and others below, in the first paragraph :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/shore.shtml

 

[kubilai]

For a photographer born in Lyon autochromes are not exactly "extremely rare"

http://www.institut-lumiere.org/francais/patrimoinelumiere/autochromes.html

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http://www.loisirs-lyon.com/Membres/musee-lumiere1.html

 

[furcafe]

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/ar...-paris-youve-been-seeing-not-quite-real/4493/

Here:

http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/

 

[jsrockit]

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/ar...-paris-youve-been-seeing-not-quite-real/4493/

No big deal to me...though I wish they'd show both versions when they do this.

 

[giellaleafapmu]

All was so peaceful and beautiful then, just ideal to get ready to kill each other a few decades later.

GLF

 

[Ming Rider]

All was so peaceful and beautiful then, just ideal to get ready to kill each other a few decades later.

GLF

Not so peaceful and beautiful then? The hatred was slowly brewing. 🙂