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[ana]

Denver picture post posted some great looking pictures from between 1939-1943..

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

 

[Pinko Marx]

Its amazing how much more personality color adds to photos.

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Jesus christ people were ugly back then

 

[Trent Strong]

Pretty awesome hats.

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

Its amazing how much more personality color adds to photos.

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Jesus christ people were ugly back then

No fat people :lol

 

[Wizman23]

I think those pictures are fascinating.

 

[Chinner]

Pretty awesome hats.

team fortress 2 promotional marketing?

 

[Subliminal]

Its amazing how much more personality color adds to photos.

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Jesus christ people were ugly back then

 

[gofreak]

Its amazing how much more personality color adds to photos.

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Jesus christ people were ugly back then

It's just so much easier to relate to colour.

I can see these people and places as part of my world rather than some bygone memory. It's amazing, I wish we had colour photos going even further back.

 

[Alucrid]

Wow. How exactly did they get them from black and white to color?

 

[speedpop]

Its amazing how much more personality color adds to photos.

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Jesus christ people were ugly back then

Don't blame the lack of colour, blame the photographer who took the shots. There's a reason why people laud Magnum Photos even though they primarily shoot in black & white - because their photographers are the best of the best when it comes to emotion and character within a single frame.

 

[GDGF]

Pretty awesome hats.

I was thinking that exact same thing :lol

 

[Shiggie]

Wow. How exactly did they get them from black and white to color?

lol.
Color film was invented a long long time before the 30s.

 

[ana]

Perhaps some of you already know that library of congress has a flickr stream of color pictures from 1930-40..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157603671370361/

Also really old russian color photos from 1909-1912 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

This looks almost 3D.. and it's almost hundred years old.. :-o

The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), poses solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession

 

[GDGF]

Wow. How exactly did they get them from black and white to color?

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

:lol :lol It's like those party photos that you find on Facebook where there's always an awkward / jealous looking dude.

 

[Chuckie]

I love those really old colour pictures. They seem almost surrealistic... it is not 'supposed' to be in colour... and yet it magically is.

Here an even older one from France, 1915

 

[AniHawk]

Wow. These are amazing.

 

[Espada]

Whoa Tence, that photo is wild. Got anything as old or older than that? There's just something about seeing these times in color when all you normally get is a painting or black and white photo.

 

[gdt]

:lol :lol It's like those party photos that you find on Facebook where there's always an awkward / jealous looking dude.

Chicks have gotten so much hotter since then.

Evolution, baby.

 

[Zenith]

DO NOT WANT!

 

[Timber]

thanks for posting. i love seeing these things so much.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Don't blame the lack of colour, blame the photographer who took the shots. There's a reason why people laud Magnum Photos even though they primarily shoot in black & white - because their photographers are the best of the best when it comes to emotion and character within a single frame.

That is the truth. And it also depends on how you use your medium. There is a certain character a photo achieves when handled properly in black and white, a certain character that is lost when moved to color. And the reverse is true as well, where a lot is lost when the color is gone.

It is all in the photographer, not the color (or lack thereof)

 

[Chuckie]

Whoa Tence, that photo is wild. Got anything as old or older than that? There's just something about seeing these times in color when all you normally get is a painting or black and white photo.

Here is one more:

And the oldest known color photograph:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

[IMG ]http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color049.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG[/IMG]

FFFUUU, looks like Borderlands.

 

[Wes]

This one was particularly impressive to me.

 

[Earl Cazone]

DO NOT WANT!

 

[Prez]

The Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan (1880-1944), poses solemnly for his portrait, taken in 1911 shortly after his accession

I need to know which camera this was taken with. I want it

 

[ResidentDante]

Denver picture post posted some great looking pictures from between 1939-1943..

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

Amazing to look at, it actually makes that time something you could relate to and live in. Usually when I see olde black/white movies or pictures from that time I just think: "thank god I live in my own time". I think black/white photos are great, but they make things seem cold, the colour pictures make the places look "warmer".

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

I need to know which camera this was taken with. I want it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokudin-Gorskii#Photography_technique

 

[Chuckie]

I need to know which camera this was taken with. I want it

Well to be fair that is a digital reproduction of the original glass plates.

Here's a description of the process (f-ing awesome btw)

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html

 

[giga]

Chicks have gotten so much hotter since then.

Evolution, baby.

 

[Espada]

Here is one more:

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/Tence/crap/france2.jpg

And the oldest known color photograph:

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae208/Tence/crap/oldest.jpg

Thanks, those are fantastic.

 

[AniHawk]

And the oldest known color photograph:

Wow. A color photograph of France from almost 140 years ago. Doesn't seem real.

 

[Chuckie]

Wow. A color photograph of France from almost 140 years ago. Doesn't seem real.

Yeah and the crazy thing is... I just visited southern France and a lot of villages still look exactly the same as 140 years ago.... beautiful.

 

[ymmv]

How many people know that movies in color were made before the first movie with sound? Search on Youtube for "2 strip technicolor" and you'll be amazed.

Equally impressive are b&w glass plate photographs made between the late 19th and early 20th century. The amount of detail on those HD photographs is staggering if you've only seen grainy, coarse b&w photographs before.

 

[Hari Seldon]

Looking at those pics makes me realized how soft our society has become.

This is a MAN.

 

[East Lake]

Here's an index of the subjects, along with the huge original scans available.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsacSubjects01.html

 

[Bisnic]

Looking at those pics makes me realized how soft our society has become.

This is a MAN.

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/...ache/color070.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG

He almost look like some kind of human/reptile mutant.

 

[Tom_Cody]

I NEED that poster.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

Amazing to look at, it actually makes that time something you could relate to and live in. Usually when I see olde black/white movies or pictures from that time I just think: "thank god I live in my own time". I think black/white photos are great, but they make things seem cold, the colour pictures make the places look "warmer".

Yes, color makes these photos almost feel contemporary.

 

[East Lake]

Looking at those pics makes me realized how soft our society has become.

This is a MAN.

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/...ache/color070.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG

You can even see his chest hair bursting out in the shadows, that's some manly shit right there.

 

[DonMigs85]

Pretty sad, a lot of school kids didn't even have shoes

 

[ymmv]

I NEED that poster.

http://cgi.ebay.com/WW2-War-Bond-Po...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b3ec3fa7

 

[PjotrStroganov]

A friend just said how bizarre it is that black and white photos from the seventies can seem so far away even when our parents where already born. These photos look much closer.

 

[Seth C]

Looking at those pics makes me realized how soft our society has become.

This is a MAN.

Yeah, a man who died prematurely due to all the vile shit he ingested, due to "unknown causes" like cancer. Awesome.

 

[Jintor]

They really feel like looking into a time portal in a way that black and white photos don't. I don't think I realised how much exactly I was influenced by those old photos in the way I visualise history.

Oddly enough I visualise, say, Roman era history as very colourful, but at the same time more like graphic art than photos.

This food looks delicious. Now I'm hungry.

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Man, that looks like it's straight out of a diagram book or somethin'...

 

[LFG]

wow, powerful imagery made stronger by color. thanks for sharing these.

 

[Prez]

http://cgi.ebay.com/WW2-War-Bond-Po...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b3ec3fa7

It's much cheaper than that on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001344UYO/?tag=neogaf0e-20

 

[Turk]

No fat people :lol

Too many fat kids now a days.

 

[gdt]

Looking at those pics makes me realized how soft our society has become.

This is a MAN.

I met that guy in Fallout 3.