World War One era color photography

**paulr** · 1-Aug-2006, 13:06

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245

**Glenn Thoreson** · 1-Aug-2006, 19:14

I think I have instructions for the 3 color process in my collection of crap somewhere. What makes this so interesting is that the photos on the site were made for projection, which would be more difficult that printing them. Nice! I enjoyed seeing it. Thanks!

**Bill_1856** · 2-Aug-2006, 04:42

I wonder how they did it, since film was essentially blind to red light at that time.

**Geert** · 2-Aug-2006, 05:00

Originally Posted by Bill_1856

I wonder how they did it, since film was essentially blind to red light at that time.

That might be the reason why all rooftops look brownish in the pictures.
I bet they were supposed to be red.

G

**Michael Daily** · 2-Aug-2006, 05:53

It is interesting to compare the autochrome images of the pre-WWI era with the pointillism, for example: _Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte_ at the Art Institute, in Chicago (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth...grande-jatte/). Did he anticipate the early color photography, or is there something else going on? Notice the very "phptographic" out-of-focus shift from foreground to background, spherical diffusion of light and shadow, etc. The art historians that I have read never comment on the "photographic" quality of his images...
Michael