colour.photography
untitled
untitled
Description: colour photography
photography (50961) blog (30164) portfolio (18364) history (7595) color (2920) colour (936)
Remember Me
untitled 1861-1935: Finding Colour Mohammed Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911. This is an early colour photograph taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. Three black-and-white photographs were taken through red, green and blue filters. The three resulting images were projected through similar filters. Combined on the projection screen, they created a full-colour image. When photographs were seen for the very first time, they wer
The 1930s was the decade when the autochrome and all other screen processes on glass became obsolete as various tricolour printing processes were finally commercialised for those who could afford to use these services. Tricolour negatives could be routinely, if expensively, sent to the lab for reliable processing and printing, rather than be painstakingly tackled at home by the photographer. Black and white had long been the medium associated with both art photography and serious photojournalism, “black and
colour.photography
untitled
untitled