Czech Autochromes

[Struan Gray]

I know there are others here who share my irrational fascination with Autochromes and early colour. The Czech thread caused me to have a browse of my old bookmarks and I found that the photographic museum in Tabor has a great online exhibit of Czech autochromes:

http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/expozice10/index.html

The Karel Smirous page in particular has some wonderful examples, including Filmcolor micrographs:

http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/expo...y-smirous.html

Interesting to see something other than just the usual Autochrome fare of portraits and flower gardens. Interesting too to see how little the popular themes of LF photography have changed.

[Emmanuel BIGLER]

a great online exhibit of Czech autochromes:

Thanks Struan !

Superb(e) !!

I like very much the idea that, at the Czech centennial meeting on Autochromes mentioned on the web site, during what they call the vernisaz of the exhibition, a pianist played some (French ?) music of the times !
Something usually missing in our informal LF gatherings except, may be, in Montreux, Switzerland in 2007 where we had, as a bonus, a jazz improvisation by a famous jazzman on a Bösendorfer Imperial... (Montreux is supposed to be stuffed with jazzmen all-year-round )
Didn't Debussy write a piece entiteld : En Blanc & Noir ?
And what about Ravel's Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (1916)
...
Le premier était plus bleu que ciel,
(Mon ami z'il est à la guerre)
Le second était couleur de neige,
Le troisième rouge vermeil...


We want both, and live LF photography, and live music ;-)

[GPS]

...
The Czech thread caused me to have a browse of my old bookmarks and I found that the photographic museum in Tabor has a great online exhibit of Czech autochromes:
...

You see what one can find when hard pressed on topics of Moravia borders and Carpathians? The real Czech treasures...

[David A. Goldfarb]

Excellent!

[Struan Gray]

Emmanuel: 'impressionist' probably does means French, but Janacek's "In the mists" is also often given that label, and would be appropriate for an exhibition of pictorialist work :-)

For me, any half-way decent piano music tends to take over the whole room. Janacek and Dvorak both wrote music for the harmonium , which would be a lot less jarring as background music to an opening.

I have a soft spot for the museum in Tabor because I visited that building when it was only a cake shop. It speaks to the civilisation of the Czech nation that the cakes remain now that the photography museum is in place. The idea of combining Autochromes with afternoon tea (or whatever the Czech is for kaffee und küchen) seems just right.


GPS: one application of silver that the digital age has yet to make obsolete is in the lining of clouds.

[Bill_1856]

Wonderful -- Thanks, Struan. I love Autochromes, my favorite is (of course) Lartigue.

[darr]

Thanks Struan!

[Henry Ambrose]

Thanks Struan,
Those are really nice.

Henry

[Jiri Vasina]

The idea of combining Autochromes with afternoon tea (or whatever the Czech is for kaffee und küchen) seems just right.

"čaj a zákusek"

[Struan Gray]

"čaj a zákusek"

Thanks Jiri. I think. :-)