Add some color! Kodachrome is extinct,but I do not expect to see a return to hand painted photographs. I don't mean "contemporary artists" who ruin old prints by doctoring them up, I mean the real thing, usually done with Marshall's Oil Colors, an early supplier to those stuck with black and white film. One of those "art of the people" things and available to anyone who read the back pages of Popular Mechanics or home hobby publications. Gone the way of candy dishes, aperitifs, formal dress and beer steins against the basement bar wall.
Tinted by hand photographs (8 x 10 and 5 x 7) all 1948-1950 Collection Jim Linderman
Oh my, these all sort of look like what happened to a lot of movies when Ted Turner started colorizing them.
ReplyDeleteThe best has got to be the women in the yellow blouses. They look like they belong in Munchkin land.
I still have my Marshall inks, but havn't used them in years. It was fun and a pain at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI met an old lady once on a subway in NYC at about 3am in 1995 who told me she used to color photos for a living. I was just returning from showing some 16mm films of my own, so there was something strangely Twilight Zone-ish about it, like she had stepped out of the past.
ReplyDeleteGreat nostalgia. I have a colorized photo of my parents on their wedding day which looks very similar.
ReplyDeleteI'm returning the courtesy of offering to remove the image of the above newspaper ad (which links to this article) from my blog. Just let me know.