Rare Collection of Early-Color Photos That Can Never See the Light of Day

[Tin Can]

Finally color I like!

I am very tempted to buy the book

Rare Collection of Early-Color Photos That Can Never See the Light of Day

https://petapixel.com/2022/11/22/rare-collection-of-early-color-photos-that-can-never-see-the-light-of-day/

[John Layton]

Wow those are stunning...anybody doing this process these days?

[Tin Can]

I have read about it and somebody here tried it

Difficult

[jnantz]

there's a photographer I think who lives ( lived? ) in Texas who makes autochromes. I see him on IG from time to time, you might be able to find him on that place that ends in "O" under the handle "photochemist".

[Tin Can]

Thanks John

I recall it is a VERY difficult process

Just ordered the book, cheapest using Abe Books and shipped free from London

Releasing 1/17/2023

240 hardcover pages

[Greg]

99% sure that Sheila Metzner didn't use the Autochrome process, but her images certainly had the "Autochrome look" to them. In the 1980s emulated the "Autochrome look" by shooting 35mm High Speed Ektachrome, processing it in C-41, and then making C prints.

[Tin Can]

https://sheilametzner.com/portfolios/nudes-with-one-thing-on



99% sure that Sheila Metzner didn't use the Autochrome process, but her images certainly had the "Autochrome look" to them. In the 1980s emulated the "Autochrome look" by shooting 35mm High Speed Ektachrome, processing it in C-41, and then making C prints.

[Dugan]

IIRC, Sheila Metzner's work was Fresson prints, not Autochrome.

[diversey]

A nice book!

[jnantz]

Thanks John

I recall it is a VERY difficult process

Just ordered the book, cheapest using Abe Books and shipped free from London

Releasing 1/17/2023

240 hardcover pages


YW

this is the guy I remembered doing it, he has a you tube video about the/his process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMUf1MER8ts&feature=emb_title

and here's his IG feed, blog, website &c
https://www.jonhilty.com


He's not from TX but Michigan ...

[Tin Can]

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThePhotoChemist

He is known as the above

He credits some people I know of

However I refuse to open any Instagram

[Tin Can]

Got the book early

I find graceful posing, muted color, an innocence we don't see in selfies and worse

Here is an iPhone capture from the book as educational usage

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52552280707_b66960324f_c.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/C649WN91m5)AUTO CHROME SAMPLE EDU (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/C649WN91m5) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr