1910: An innocent Edwardian childhood in color
While Levi Hill supposedly invented color photography in the 1850s, it was the Lumiere brothers who devised the first commercially viable photographic process. Here's a collection of interesting color photographs in the early 20th century. Women under a tree, c. 1915. A woman and boy in a chair, c. 1915. A woman and flowers, c. 1915. Children and teachers, c. 1910. A woman in red dress, c. 1915. Silver Lake,1907-1932. Women with a Happy Easter/Buy Kodak sign, c. 1917. Seneca pool, 1924. A woman in a greenhouse, c.1910. A girl with dolls, c. 1910. The Palace of Horticulture at the Pan American Exposition in San Francisco, 1915. A woman on a rock in a garden, c. 1910-15. A man and his dogs, c. 1915. Foolish House at the Ontario Beach Park, 1910. Letchworth State Park, New York, c. 1915. An urban outdoor market, c. 1910. A woman in costume, c. 1915. A row of young women, 1907-1932. A popular beach, c. 1915. A baby, c. 1915. Swimmers at Fine View, 1907-1932. A young couple, c. 1920. Charles Zoller with his bicycle, c. 1920. Sisters, c. 1909, Killara, Australia. A nurse and child, c. 1907-1932, by Charles C. Zoller. Nurses and "Uncle Sam" at a WWI support parade, US, c. 1917, by Charles C. Zoller. Family group, c. 1915. Native American man, c. 1910, by Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell. Woman in a throne, c. 1915. Arnett YMCA, USA, 1907-1932. Villa Bonnier, Stockholm, c. 1930. Louis Lumiere, of the Lumiere brothers, inventors, film innovators, and creators of the autochrome itself. c. 1910. Woman with a crazy pinecone-feather hat, c. 1910. Street and castle view, Foix, France, c. 1903, by Eugene Trutat.
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
1910: An innocent Edwardian childhood in color
Over 100 years ago, a French banker named Albert Kahn undertook a massive photography project that became known as The Archives of the Planet. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using the Autochrome Lumière process, to document in color what they saw. One of the cities they documented was Paris. Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers (Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon) began to document daily life in Paris. They utilized pioneering technology that employed color filters made from microscopic grains of dyed potato starch. The images collected portray the everyday struggle of real life, juxtaposed with a joie de vivre characteristic of Parisians, in a city on the brink of devastation brought on by a war that would alter the world. This collection showcases an amazing, colorful time period, with historical scenes that are as familiar as they are foreign, not to mention a nostalgic depiction of humanity.
Download Image of Alfonse Van Besten, Children at play c. 1912, autochrome 9 x 12 (restored by Stuart Humphryes). Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Alfonse Van Besten, Children at play c. 1912, autochrome 9 x 12 (original colours restored by Stuart Humphryes). Dated: 1915. Topics: autochromes, color photography, early photography, netherlands, belgium in the 1910 s, clogs of belgium, jump ropes, leapfrog in art, sebastiaan alphonse van besten, belgium, city square, rijksmuseum
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Over 100 years ago, a French banker named Albert Kahn undertook a massive photography project that became known as The Archives of the Planet. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using the Autochrome Lumière process, to document in color what they saw. One of the cities they documented was Paris. Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers (Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon) began to document daily life in Paris. They utilized pioneering technology that employed color filters made from microscopic grains of dyed potato starch. The images collected portray the everyday struggle of real life, juxtaposed with a joie de vivre characteristic of Parisians, in a city on the brink of devastation brought on by a war that would alter the world. This collection showcases an amazing, colorful time period, with historical scenes that are as familiar as they are foreign, not to mention a nostalgic depiction of humanity.
The lowly potato gave the world sustenance, French fries, and would you believe color photography? In 1903, two French inventors and photographers, Auguste and Louis Lumière, used the potato as the basis for their patented process in creating color photographs, or Autochromes as they were called. It was a simple but ingenious technique—crush potatoes into tiny particles; separate these minuscule starch particles into three; add red, violet and green dye; mix onto a glass plate; brush off the excess; flatten the dyed particles onto the plate between two rollers—thus creating microscopic color filters; fill in any gaps with soot; brush with light-sensitive silver bromide. Voila! You have a photographic plate ready to take color pictures. The Lumières were also behind early advances in motion pictures but the brothers thought there was no future in movies and stuck to developing color photography. By 1907, the Lumières’ technique had proved so successful it infected the photographic world with “color fever.” Photographers across Europe and America (including talented amateurs like Gustave Eiffel better known for his Parisien tower) started producing a gallery’s worth of pictures—from portraits to nudes. To get an idea of scale, take for example...
Download Image of Greenhouse flowers, Nancy region, France 1909-1910. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Public domain photograph of greenhouse plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Dated: 1907 - 1911. Topics: julien gerardin, national school of art and design of nancy, nancy, early photography, france, plants, autochromes, color photography, greenhouse, autochromes by julien gerardin, high resolution, flowers
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
Believe it or not, this color photograph was shot in 1910. It's one of over 2,600 images captured by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii between 1905 and 1915 that are now part of the Library of Congress collection. Many of Prokudin-Gorskii's photos were captured as three-color B&W separations, allowing them to be reproduced a century later as surprisingly high quality digital color images....
Over 100 years ago, a French banker named Albert Kahn undertook a massive photography project that became known as The Archives of the Planet. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using the Autochrome Lumière process, to document in color what they saw. One of the cities they documented was Paris. Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers (Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon) began to document daily life in Paris. They utilized pioneering technology that employed color filters made from microscopic grains of dyed potato starch. The images collected portray the everyday struggle of real life, juxtaposed with a joie de vivre characteristic of Parisians, in a city on the brink of devastation brought on by a war that would alter the world. This collection showcases an amazing, colorful time period, with historical scenes that are as familiar as they are foreign, not to mention a nostalgic depiction of humanity.
Albert Kahn was a wealthy French banker who launched a project in the early 1909 that aimed to create a photographic record of the world. The first
Download Image of Alfonse Van Besten, Youth idyll c.1913, autochrome 9×12. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Alfonse Van Besten, Youth idyll c.1913, autochrome 9×12. Dated: 1910. Topics: color photography, autochromes, belgium in the 1910 s, sebastiaan alphonse van besten
Thanks to the folks at The National Media Museum these amazing photographs by Mervyn O’Gorman have been getting a lot of attention lately. Taken at Dorset in 1913, these photographs of his daughter show us some wonderful versions of the Autochrome Lumière process. Autochrome Lumière was a process for colour photography invented in France in 1903, marketed in 1907 and which dominated colour photography until the mid 1930s. O'Gorman himself was an engineer with a very prevalent photography habit which has meant that many of his photographs are often included in exhibitions of early colour photography. For anyone curious about photography's history, these certainly are
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
1909 "The Japanese parasol." John Cimon Warburg/SSPL/Getty Images Born into a wealthy family, John Cimon Warburg (1867 - 1931) was able to devote his time whole
12 Nazi Concentration Camps is a body of work by James Friedman who, in the early '80s, took the largely unprecedented step of documenting Nazi camps in color photography.
Early color photographs on Autochrome from Europe
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The French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn wanted to capture the world in color photographs -- an ambitious goal, but not a unique one, you might think, eyeing last month's National Geographic. Except that Kahn started in 1909, a year that for most of us exists, pictorially, only in black and white. For his "Archives of the Planet" project, Kahn sent photographers armed with so-called autochrome cameras (the first to reproduce something close to the full color spectrum) to some 50 countries, and they came back with more than 72,000 images. They captured iconic scenes, naturally, including the first color images of the Taj Mahal and the Pyramids, but today the most interesting are the more quotidian: a French nurse, in the town of Moreuil, looking beatifically over two wounded soldiers in 1916; or (from 1912) a female Mongolian nomad, on horseback. "The women didnât want their picture taken," the photographer wrote Kahn from Mongolia, after complaining about poor roads and exotic food, "but they were ordered to by the chief These Mongols have a fierce pride not found among the Chinese -- it was impossible to offer them anything in return, and it would have angered them to insist" ...
“The Lumière process will make us learn the intricate laws of colour” – Robert Demachy Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960) became interested in photography whilst studying at Cambridge University. When the Lumière brothers’ autochrome process for recording color became available in 1907, she invested in the expensive plates (just four cost the same as a … Continue reading "Girls And Gardens : The English Lady’s Autochromes (c.1908)"
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"
In 1910, Auguste Leon visited the German scientist and photographer Adolf Miethe, who helped to invent the flash camera. He used a different, much more rare, the method of color photography - color separation, ie filmed on a triple plate through color filters. Here are some rare and interesting color photos of Norway circa 1910 in A. Miethe's collection.
Early 1900s color photos look like literal dreams
An early form of color photography called autochrome gave pictures a "wonderful luminosity."
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Ethelreda Laing's autochrome of her daughters is an example of early colour photography
In 1909, at the very dawn of color photography, the French banker Albert Kahn set out to visually document every culture of the global human family. With the fortune he had amassed selling securities from South African diamond mines and illegal war bonds to the Japanese, Kahn financed a team of photographers to spread across the world taking pictures. Over the next two decades, these artists and ethnographers produced over 70,000 photos across 50 countries, from Ireland to India and everywhere in-between. Indian chief, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, photographer Edwin Wisherd, 1927. A guy in a cowboy outfit, California, 1920. Leader Naxi people in Tibet, photographer Joseph Rock, about 1927. Ethiopian veterans in traditional attire, photographer Robert Moore, 1930. Dutch photographer Stephane Passet, 1910. Vendian woman (ie Lusatian Serb) in traditional dress, Germany, Hans Gildenbrand, 1931. Residents of Dahomey (now Benin), photographer Frederic Gadmer, 1920. Kurdish women in Iran, photographer Frederic Gadmer, 1920. Breton couple in traditional dress, France, photographer George Chevalier, 1920. Breton group in traditional costumes, photographer Adrien, between 1907 and 1928. Sisters Helene and Denise Lauth in Alsace, France, photographer George Chevalier, 1918. Moroccans, shot from the collection of Albert Kahn, 1910. Moroccan children, 1910. The inhabitants of Ceylon, 1910. Russian woman in traditional dress, Rimsky-Korsakov, between 1908 and 1917. Two Bishari girls standing in front of their homes in Egypt, 1914. Armenian women from a 1912 trip to Istanbul, Turkey. Women from the Macedonian village of Smilevo, 1913. Greek refugees in the Balkans, 1913. A street in Ohrid, Macedonia, 1913. Macedonian men photographed by Auguste Léon in 1913. Moroccan farmers posing for one of Kahn’s photographers, ca. 1912-1913. Women in traditional clothing in Corfu, Greece, 1913. Two men in front of a Hindu temple in Lahore, Pakistan, 1914.
1910: An innocent Edwardian childhood in color
