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    Paris 1900 color photography?

    So apparently there's this photograph of the World's Fair in Paris in 1900 - in color.
    Color? 1900?
    I'm guessing handpainted? Doesn't look like it though.

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    I have an original color photo of General Nicola Perscheid that was included in a 1910 Zeiss lens catalog. If memory serves me correct it is 3 color carbon print. Very intense colors.

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    Ah, a carbon print. Never thought of that.

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    Could it be an Autochrome? It was patented in 1903, and the photograph doesn't show an time-vs-color exposure problems, despite the boat traffic on the river.
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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    They weren't originally prints, but have you seen these? Russia, early 1900s.

    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    Albert Kahn, perhaps?

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    It's hard to tell from the example posted. I'd guess hand painted. It was in vogue at that time and some of it was very well done. (Some of it was garish.) Examples of autochromes I've seen are all about 4x5 inches and really grainy.

    Peter Gomena

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    The problem wasn't in making color prints, but that silver halide film was nearly color blind to red images.
    Wilhelm (Sarasota)

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    Colour photography was available to the "larger public" by 1898. I would say this might be a carbon print (with the rather frequently seen shift towards yellow…). Not an autochrome (you'd see the characteristic dots), nor Joly Screen (you'd see the screen pattern). Other processes where patented later (BTW, autochrome's first steps were done 1903, but it didn't reach anybody until 1907).

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    Re: Paris 1900 color photography?

    Has to be fake. Sure, there was color photography, but the *world* was black and white. I read it on the internet:

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwAA&dur=2062

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