#4010845 - 09/17/14 06:59 AM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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Olham
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What the colouring seems to do for me is to shrink the distance in time between the person(s) and my own presence. Don't they suddenly feel so much closer?
Thank you for sharing - I'll check out the website with my first coffee now!
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#4010849 - 09/17/14 08:30 AM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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Rover_27
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Thanks for sharing! Some photos indeed gave me the chills as the website promised
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#4010852 - 09/17/14 08:54 AM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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MFair
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What the colouring seems to do for me is to shrink the distance in time between the person(s) and my own presence. Don't they suddenly feel so much closer?
Thank you for sharing - I'll check out the website with my first coffee now! Olham, I have always had a "feeling" when looking at these colorized pictures that I could not really put my finger on but you hit the nail on the head! Thanks for sharing Cat.
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#4010857 - 09/17/14 09:32 AM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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JimAttrill
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My maternal grandmother did this as a job back in the early years of the 20th century. There weren't many jobs for women out of 'service' in those days and she enjoyed it (so I have been told anyway).
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#4010884 - 09/17/14 12:11 PM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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Nietzsche
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Superb! Most revealing is the Portrait of Lincoln to me: I've always seen him beeing a "Living Stone Statue" before... and there he is, now... he is an exhausted, tired, old man - but you can still see his archly smile, that says - even in those times - Life isn't all sad. Tesla was a little Suprise to me: Pretty unsuspecting. I thought I'd see more "Charisma" with the most complex Mind of the Universe...
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#4010950 - 09/17/14 02:46 PM
Re: Colorized Historical Photos
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Hasse
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Great stuff!
Real colour photography was rare in the early years of the 20th century, but it did exist. The French were the pioneers in the field. Perhaps the most famous early exponent of colour photography was the French banker Albert Kahn, who used his wealth to fund a massive colour photography project known as Les Archives de la Planète, the Archives of the Planet. The collection contains over 72,000 colour photos from 1909 until 1931, when the Great Depression put an end to Kahn's wealth and the project.
Another famous early colour photographer was the Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. He took a lot of photos from various parts of the Russian Empire in the 1910s, just a few years before the Empire collapsed in the revolutions of 1917.
Many of the photos of these guys are of excellent quality and look like they were taken yesterday. Their methods captured and preserved the colours in the photos incredibly well.
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