Stuart Humphryes, @official_babelcolour, cleaned & enhanced this autochrome taken at the first Paris Air Show, at the Grand Palais, by Léon Gimpel, on September 30th, 1909, less than 6 years after the Wright Brothers' first successful flight.
This is the autochrome's original colour, and has not been not colourised.
Modern color photography is amazing, but there's something about an autochrome that just leaps off the page. This 1915 portrait of an unidentified woman by Rudolph Dührkoop is a great example of the art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_D%C3%BChrkoop
#autochrome
#portrait
#photohistory
#historyofphotography
#RudolphDührkoop
#GermanPhotography
#pictorialism
A young woman poses in front of her home in Asyut, #Egypt. Out-of-focus but beautiful (#autochrome #photography was difficult in any setting other than bright light), this 1914 photograph by #AugustLeon looks strikingly modern.
#History #Anthropology #AlbertKahn Museum
1928. A tribesman of the Kochi pastoral nomads poses for the photographer in the Paropamisus Mountains of northwestern Afghanistan.
#Autochrome #Photography #History #Anthropology #AlbertKahn Archive #Afghanistan #Kochi people
A young Khalkha woman of Mongolia, photographed in Ulaanbaatar in 1913.
She wears the traditional hairstyle, with her hair formed into two horns and the lower part braided. Her crown-like hat, worn for traveling or special events, is made of velvet.
#Photography #Autochrome #AlbertKahn Museum #History #Histodon #Anthropology #Mongolia #Khalkha
A young Irish woman sits for the photographers in front of her cottage outside Galway in 1913.
Photo by Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon.
https://flashbak.com/the-first-colour-photographs-of-ireland-1913-432924/
#Photography #Autochrome #History #Histodon #Anthropology #Ireland
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Marguerite #Mespoulet and Madeleine #Mignon, two very early color photographers, made 73 #autochrome #photographs in #Ireland in 1913 for Albert Kahn’s #ArchivesofthePlanet project. They are the first color photographs of Ireland and they include this stunning image of a 14-year-old girl in the village of Claddagh outside of #Galway.
The Irish photographs are not currently included in the digital archive of the #AlbertKahn Museum. My thanks to @anneeroper for letting me know about them.
A shepherd poses for the photographer in Antioch, Syria on 26 October 1921.
Photo by Frederic Gadmer.
#photography #autochrome #history #anthropology #Syria
A woman sells eggs door to door in Corfu, Greece, October, 1913. Photo by Auguste Leon, Albert Kahn Museum.
#photography #autochrome #history #anthropology #Greece
@SerenaJ @histodons There’s a book, coauthored by a University of Iowa professor: Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/amad13500 #kahn #photography #film #1910s #autochrome #potatoquality
This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.
The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.
The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.
