Paris 1900 color photography?

[cyrus]

So apparently there's this photograph (http://i.imgur.com/Q4pMv.jpg) of the World's Fair in Paris in 1900 - in color.
Color? 1900?
I'm guessing handpainted? Doesn't look like it though.

[Pete Roody]

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.

[cyrus]

Ah, a carbon print. Never thought of that.

[Brian C. Miller]

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.

[Richard Wasserman]

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

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

[AF-ULF]

Albert Kahn, perhaps?

[Peter Gomena]

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

[Bill_1856]

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

[csant]

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).

[ericpmoss]

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=http://multifamilyinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/calvin-hobbes-world-black-white-color.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.multifamilyinvestor.com/vintage-new-york-city-apartment-building-office-building-photos/&h=1021&w=800&sz=195&tbnid=DMyaS3ia2MA33M:&tbnh=97&tbnw=76&zoom=1&docid=QQ5Xp_3eg9BppM&sa=X&ei=wbgtT7mGO-rZ0QHQq9TSCg&ved=0CCQQ9QEwAA&dur=2062

[cyrus]

Ah well that explains it fully

[Lynn Jones]

E. von Hoegh of Agfa invented panchromatic emulsions in 1903 according to historical texts, Agfa created a color transparency shortly after that but it involved an outlandishly expensive glass cover plate with etchings and RGB etches. They gave it up because they couldn't create an inexpensive cover plate.

The Lumiere's created autochrome (historically) in 1907 and early samples were given to National Geographic which created a color cover that year from it.

I'm going to class right now, later we'll talk about "one color cameras" and "technicolor" both of which preceded Kodachrome and Agfa Neucolor.

Lynn