Gorgeous Antique Color Photos

18%gray · Post by **18%gray** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:18 pm

Can't post any of them, but there are some gorgeous color photos posted here --

http://news-beta.nationalgeographic.com ... e-culture/

that were taken in the 20s and 30s, using a technique that involved potato starch, of all things. Several of them look like paintings.

Dustin McAmera · Post by **Dustin McAmera** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:10 pm

If you like Autochromes, you can find more in the Flickr accounts of several of the Commons contributors: just for example, here's the George Eastman House's set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_ea ... 226772243/ (Thanks, GEH!)

There's also Frédéric Mocellin, who has made his own Autochrome material: painstaking or what?
http://www.autochromes.fr/

OpenWater · Post by **OpenWater** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:33 pm

All three are great links. I enjoyed the photos in them!

PFMcFarland · Post by **PFMcFarland** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:45 pm

Got an Internal Server Error on the Nat Geo link.

PF

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