Photochromes are vibrant and nuanced prints hand-colored from black-and-white negatives. Created using a process pioneered in the 1880s, these images offer a fascinating insight into the world when color photography was still in its infancy.
Photochrome is a method of producing colored images from black-and-white negatives, allowing color pictures to be created before color photography became available. The process was developed in the 1880s by the Swiss chemist Hans Jakob Schmid.
Creating a photochrome involved taking detailed notes on the colors present in the photographed scene, and then hand-coloring the negative...
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Women in Algeria, 1899 |
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The Praça da Ribeira in Porto, Portugal, circa 1903 |
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Lauterbrunnen and the Staubbach waterfall, Switzerland, circa 1900 |
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Mosque of El-Zituna in Tunis, Tunisia, 1896 |
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The Rhine Falls, Switzerland, circa 1890 |
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Farmers in Guria, Georgia, 1904 |
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Landing off the coast of Algiers, Algeria, 1896 |
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Street food in the Strada del Porto in Naples, Italy, 1899 |
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Schaffhausen and the Munot, Switzerland, 1893 |
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Camel drivers in the desert, 1895 |
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Water-pipe smokers in front of a coffee house in Istanbul, Turkey, 1897 |
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Alley in the old town of Biskra, Algeria, circa 1900 |
(via
The Guardian)
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