Paris Exposition of 1900
Hundreds of pictures taken by the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts on his trip to Paris in 1900. Great treasure trove.
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Hundreds of pictures taken by the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts on his trip to Paris in 1900. Great treasure trove.
XIII - Eh... eh?
Julynell
I love this time period. It’s great to not see any cars ;)
But I would love to see the original black and white pictures, somehow colored pictures doesn’t fit the images, because it doesn’t fit the time period.
Nevertheless great work coloring them. I can imagine that taking a very long time :)
janrocks
colour photography (fiirst example 1861 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Tartan_Ribbon.jpg/733px-Tartan_Ribbon.jpg James Clarke Maxwell.. the great scientist ) dates really from 1877 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Duhauron1877.jpg/800px-Duhauron1877.jpg .. so a lot of these look like true color photographs of the era, as shown by this print taken sometime between 1908-1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-12.jpg Colour moving pictures date from around 1906, though the first colour film I know of was a hand coloured French sci-fi thing from 1899
A very interesting set of pictures indeed.
XIII
Thanks for the update, I looked up the history of color photography myself, based on the examples given in the article I do think these are handcolored. 1900 is too early for the more available types and all the prototypes show clear distinction in layers for each of the colors, meaning seperate photos had to be taken for every layer. That works for stills but given the fact that the Paris shots show people walking about it would have to be a single picture that is then later colored by hand.