Early Colour Photo's

[stix]

In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography

http://citynoise.org/article/10598

Some pretty cool images from the start of it all.

 

[AstroTurf]

awesome

Thanks for that, always fun to see how we progress as a species.

 

[undesign]

http://citynoise.org/article/10598

Some pretty cool images from the start of it all.

Great find stix! Everything seems so innocent back then.

 

[Lupus]

Odd how looking at these photos makes you think hey

 

[bwana]

I was at a dinner not long ago and they sat me next to a lady who used to hand colour photographs in a UK Lab.

 

[undesign]

Odd how looking at these photos makes you think hey

ditto

I was at a dinner not long ago and they sat me next to a lady who used to hand colour photographs in a UK Lab.

Good lord, that must be just slightly more exciting than watching paint dry. Oh here's one of little Jimmy on his bike, here's another one of him, wait here's another one...

 

[ponder]

Odd how looking at these photos makes you think hey

..that if you don't know jack about composition, light etc your R50k dslr is useless

 

[quiksilver]

wot? no photoshop?