Interesting blog entry on early colour photography
http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/001835.html#001835
Interesting blog entry on early colour photography
http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/001835.html#001835
You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn
www.photo-muse.blogspot.com blog
Thanks, Tim. Good color, (actually colour, I suppose), but the quality of the photography would have embarrassed Olan Mills.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
Interesting bit of history. On the web you can never tell about quality, particularly with colour (and old colour even more so), so I'll say the Olan Mills comment was a bit harsh. Let's just say the style is a little dated.
talking of old colour - someone just passed these along - Capa's WWII colour work:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/FramerT_MAG.aspx?Stat=Features_DocThumb&V=CDocT&E=2K7O3R1Y3CVM&DT=ALB
or
http://tinyurl.com/c9rhg
You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn
www.photo-muse.blogspot.com blog
Thanks, Tim. Good color, (actually colour, I suppose), but the quality of the photography would have embarrassed Olan Mills.
I don't know, that Yousuf Karsh is pretty nice...
The Capa stuff looks pretty awesome, and I'm guessing that most was shot on his prewar 35mm Contax rangefinders going by the grain in the skies.
These are a favourite of mine and I've become quite adept at restoring them. (gotta show one, forum choice of LF aside...beautiful!) I've shot some great colour slides with uncoated Sonnar lenses.
I didn't know the world even got colorized until after WWII. Sure is strange to see Capa's photos with vivid colors. It sure changes the mood of the period.
I think I've also posted thes before
autochromes etc
http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/visites_guidees/autochromes.html
(there are links to images on there)
http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=211833&messageid=1088370788&lp=1088381193
(big page)
and
http://www.stern.de/politik/historie/index.html?id=530477&nv=fs&cp=1
You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn
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and of course pre-revolutionary Russia
(I must say I find lots of this early colour stuff quite fascinating)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0105/russia.html
You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn
www.photo-muse.blogspot.com blog
Tim, for me the most interesting aspect of the Russian photographs has always been that he used tri-color sensitive plates with enough speed to do instantious shots. I thought at that time such emulsions were color blind (blue sensitive only).
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
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