Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
One of the most delicate, in all aspects of the word, photographical techniques is the Autochrome. These early 20th century color photograph...
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
Albert Kahn milliomos bankár és neves filantróp egyik kedvenc hobbija a fotózás volt. 1929-re már Eur...
A collection of amazing color portrait photos of women from the early 20th century; these photographs were made on color photographic Autochrome plate technology.
Оригинал взят у eska в Цветные француженки 1920-х в объективе Гюстава Гаина (автохром)
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
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.
One of the most delicate, in all aspects of the word, photographical techniques is the Autochrome. These early 20th century color photograph...
“Let us be inspired by their examples by seeking to translate the softest and most delicate colours in nature, and in this way we too will make a work of art” – Antonin Personnaz Between 1907 and 1914, art collector Antonin Personnaz (1854 – 31 December 1936) took autochrome pictures of France’s Oise … Continue reading "Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Dreams Of Early 20th Century France"
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) was born in Cherbourg, France on June 27, 1876. As a chemist he keens on photography and related technical achievements. After the invention of the Autochrome by the Lumière brothers, Gustave is actively engaged in color photograph. Gustave Gain loves beach. In the summer, he spent much time with his family on the coast of the English Channel in Brittany and Normandy, where he took a lot of stunning shots of his wife, Adeline and other women.
A qui attribuer la paternité de l'invention du cinéma, découverte capitale qui fait basculer à la fois l'univers du spectacle et de l'information? La question, vieille comme le cinéma et qui agite la France et les Etats-unis depuis 120 ans, pour des raisons de brevets et d'exclusivité commerciale, semble enfin avoir trouvé sa réponse au Grand Palais avec l'exposition "Lumière, Le cinéma inventé".Who invented cinema, a discovery that revolutionized the worlds of entertainment and news? The question is as old as the medium itself and has been debated in France and the United States for the past 120 years. It finally seems to have found an answer at the Grand Palais with the exhibition Lumière, Le cinéma inventé.
When you think of old photos or historical pictures, you naturally think in terms of black and white, but as you can see from these stunning vintage photos from the turn of the 20th century, color pictures have been around for a lot longer than you think.
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
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
One of the most delicate, in all aspects of the word, photographical techniques is the Autochrome. These early 20th century color photograph...
(Above) An impressive 5 x 7 inch autochrome, circa 1905, from the gallery of Alex Novak and Marthe Smith. Learn more at 212.822.5662 or visit their website at www.vintageworks.net. Click for larger view. So, you thought the year 1905 was black and white, did you? :-) Be sure and click on images for a larger view. All of these photos were made in Belgium around 1900 to 1910! IF YOU COULD SEE BACK 110 YEARS, just for a moment—the people and their dress, a city street or country path in real color, that would be pretty amazing, wouldn’t it? Just a few years ago, color photos and movie film of World War II was made available for the first time that documented various aspects of the war. Even during 1940-45, color film was quite rare. The few color photos that I have seen reproduced of soldiers and the war (rather than in B&W) brings the distant past a lot closer. Of course, it wasn’t until the 1950’s that color was finally introduced to the world—and even then, it had its limitations. But did you know that color images were being made at the turn of the 20th century? The process was called the autochrome, and it was a complicated process using, of all things... potatoes. If it wasn’t an autochrome, any color images you might find from that period or before were hand-colored tintypes, Daguerreotypes, and other monochromatic processes. Here, for the first time, was a process that could truly capture the ambient color of the day. It looked a lot like a glass slide, and was about 4 x 5 inches (and larger) in size. The autochrome 1907-1932 The autochrome process was invented during the years 1895-1903, by the French brothers Louis Lumière (1864-1947 and Auguste Lumière (1862-1954). It took them four further years to work out and refine the several fabrication processes. Finally in 1907 the autochrome plates came on the market and were an instant success. Until now, the photographers’ only way to produce color was tinting the plates by hand which was done by many photographers with breathtaking artistry. Here’s part of what it took to make an autochrome plate The nucleus of autochrome glass plates are dyed grains of potato starch measuring between 0.006—0.025mm. Make three heaps of starch, dye each pile in respectively violet, green and orange. Make a mix of these three different colored grain starches. You need a glass plate between 0.9 and 1.8mm thick. First you have to varnish the plate with a latex based varnish. Blow the colored mix of grains on the varnished plate. Gently brush the plate to remove the surplus grains. Next, a fine layer of charcoal is applied to fill the interstices between the grains. The whole plate then has to be pressed to reduce overall thickness of layers. After pressing, apply a second layer of varnish. To finish off, place a panchromatic emulsion layer. This is briefly the production process of an autochrome plate, but imagine for all the different production stages industrial machines had to be invented to produce plates on a grand scale. Some interesting facts There are between 6,000 to 7,000 grains on a square millimeter. A rolling pressure of 5000 kg per square centimeter had to be achieved to press the layers without breaking the fragile glass plate. Around 1914 the daily production was 6,000 autochrome plates. It is estimated that between 1907 and 1932 around 20 million plates were sold. The biggest collection of autochromes (72,000 plates) is housed at the Albert Kahn Museum at Boulogne Billancourt, France.An AM Repost from 1/23/09 Learn more at: Autochromes. Copyright 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 Thomas Weynants (Pipistrello) Media_Museum Version (6) 01 / 01 / 2008 - All rights reserved by SOFAM
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome
French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) was born in Cherbourg, France on June 27, 1876. As a chemist he keens on photography and related technical achievements. After the invention of the Autochrome by the Lumière brothers, Gustave is actively engaged in color photograph. Gustave Gain loves beach. In the summer, he spent much time with his family on the coast of the English Channel in Brittany and Normandy, where he took a lot of stunning shots of his wife, Adeline and other women.
