early colour photography
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Autochrome, circa 1920
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Colour photography isn’t a modern phenomenon, but we tend to think it is because until the middle of the 20th century news couldn’t easy print colour photos and the process was expensive and fiddly…but there are quite a lot of early colour photos out there.
Here’s Monet and his Garden in 1918 by Étienne Clémentel,
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Autochrome, 1918 Étienne Clémentel, Monet and his Garden
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Autochrome, 1917c Alfred Stieglitz, Alfred Joseph Obermeyer and Katherine Stieglitz. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke
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Two Men Playing Chess
Autochrome, 1907 Alfred Stieglitz, Two Men Playing Chess 9 x 12 cm cm Alfred Stieglitz Collection 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Autochrome, 1907c Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Eugene.
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Autochrome, 1907c Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Eugene.
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Autochrome: Fernand Cuville, 1917. A French soldier stands next to a table with German shells and an aircraft propeller, along the Western Front in
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Edward Elgar, composer.
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar WildeI suspect this is hand coloured but there was also early colour photography. Don’t know why this picture took me by surprise then….possibly because I’m used to blurry B&W portraits and nothing as clean and clear as this?