early colour work

[tim atherton]

Interesting blog entry on early colour photography

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/001835.html#001835

[Bill_1856]

Thanks, Tim. Good color, (actually colour, I suppose), but the quality of the photography would have embarrassed Olan Mills.

[Donald Brewster]

Interesting bit of history. On the web you can never tell about quality, particularly with colour (and old colour even more so), so I'll say the Olan Mills comment was a bit harsh. Let's just say the style is a little dated.

[tim atherton]

talking of old colour - someone just passed these along - Capa's WWII colour work:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/FramerT_MAG.aspx?Stat=Features_DocThumb&V=CDocT&E=2K7O3R1Y3CVM&DT=ALB

or

http://tinyurl.com/c9rhg

[Craig Wactor]

Thanks, Tim. Good color, (actually colour, I suppose), but the quality of the photography would have embarrassed Olan Mills.

I don't know, that Yousuf Karsh is pretty nice...

[Mike Kovacs]

The Capa stuff looks pretty awesome, and I'm guessing that most was shot on his prewar 35mm Contax rangefinders going by the grain in the skies.



These are a favourite of mine and I've become quite adept at restoring them. (gotta show one, forum choice of LF aside...beautiful!) I've shot some great colour slides with uncoated Sonnar lenses.

[Larry Gebhardt]

I didn't know the world even got colorized until after WWII. Sure is strange to see Capa's photos with vivid colors. It sure changes the mood of the period.

[tim atherton]

I think I've also posted thes before

autochromes etc

http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/visites_guidees/autochromes.html

(there are links to images on there)

http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=211833&messageid=1088370788&lp=1088381193

(big page)

and

http://www.stern.de/politik/historie/index.html?id=530477&nv=fs&cp=1

[tim atherton]

and of course pre-revolutionary Russia

(I must say I find lots of this early colour stuff quite fascinating)

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

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0105/russia.html

[Bill_1856]

Tim, for me the most interesting aspect of the Russian photographs has always been that he used tri-color sensitive plates with enough speed to do instantious shots. I thought at that time such emulsions were color blind (blue sensitive only).