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Here are 4 autochrome enhancements of French painters at work. The first 3 show the Impressionist painter Armand Guillaumin, taken over a 10 year period from 1907 to 1917 by Antonin Personnaz & Paul Burty Haviland. The 4th is an unnamed artist in 1925 by Gervais-Courtellemont.
An artist at work: I have enhanced for you this gorgeous autochrome by Antonin Personnaz, which captures the artist Armand Guillaumin painting bathers in Crozant, central France, way back in 1907. It was photographed in colour and isn't colourised. 😍
I leave you with an enhancement of a 1912 autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten. A young lady posed amongst the marguerite daisies, 110 years ago. I thought you may like seeing a before & after comparison. I've not painted on any additional colour, just boosted what was already there.
For the benefit of all my new followers, I thought I'd demonstrate what I do & what I mean by "original colour (not colourised)". I take faded glass-plate colour photos and digitally clean & enhance them. I don't paint on or add new colour, I merely boost what's originally there.
Getting weary of all the mourning tweets everywhere, so it's back to umbrellas, and a few examples of how red parasols became the go-to prop for early colour photographers. Here are 4 enhancements from 1909 & 1910, plus a final Lippman Plate from c.1890. None colourised.
The Art of the Autochrome Silhouette 💕 I have cleaned & enhanced these wonderful examples of glass plate silhouettes, taken respectively by Julien Gérardin (1908); Friedrich Paneth (1924), Frank Hurley (The Endurance, 1915) & Paneth again (1925). They are not colourised.
Today, I offer you an enhancement of an African autochrome, taken around 1920 by Franklin Price Knott. It is a study of a Zulu tribesman, exuding nobility over a century ago. It is original colour (not colourised).
Today I have cleaned-up for you the sweetest of autochromes, dated around 1910. It is a study of future mountaineer Georgia Engelhard (1906-1986) taken by photographer Alfred Stieglitz 112 years ago. It is original colour (not colourised).
Calling all Cat Lovers! Here are 4 antique photos I have cleaned & enhanced for you, spanning just 62 years between them. The 1st is a portrait from 1850, the 2nd is Leo the cat (an autochrome taken in Eastbourne in 1909); and the final 2 are a cat napping 100 years ago, in 1912!
@nathanhead Well, to be fair, you wouldn't have noticed it, because it is cropped out by the circle on the test card