early colour photographs

[leedy]

These pictures are amazing.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Wow, they are! It's amazing how much it confuses your brain, to see photos like that in colour and know they aren't posed or re-created.

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Yes! You assume that "colour == modern".

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how much it confuses your brain, to see photos like that in colour and know they aren't posed or re-created.
You just articulated somthing I couldn't quite put my finger on!

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

And yet, they have this amazing, shiny, fragile quality that is quite different from most early colour I've seen, which tends to be warm and blurry. That makes them even more modern and brain-hurty, I think.

[class-worrier.livejournal.com]

Yes, instead of it taking you back, it comes to you, which is an unusual thing to deal with.

[kristamm.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes.

I can't stop thinking that they're fake, since clearly the world wasn't in color back then.

[class-worrier.livejournal.com]

Excellent.
I love the bridge (#9).

[leedy.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one's fabulous. I like Tolstoy as well.

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

I'm awed, they're amazing. I like the Sart women from Samarkand, in a slightly chilling way...

[whatsagirlgotta.livejournal.com]

Wow, they're shockingly sharp and 3D.