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English Photography: Period Colorized Images
Figure 1.--This looks like a beautifully tinted photographic portrait. The children wear coordinate black velvet outfits with natching lace collars and cyffs. Notice the maroon collar and hair bows. The boys has fancy pantalettes. The portrait is undated, but we would guess was taken about 1890. A reader writes, "Bright colors, in nthis case red (maroon) drawd the eye and create movement if a triangle is created. Here the three yriangle points are the bows and flowers. I am not sure how many colorists were fully aware of the optics involved. Our trader contijnued, "I agree with you. But this colorist or the person who directed the coloring obviously knew because it was used to create two triangles in the picture. Both helped to highlight the girl's and boy's face. I highly doubt such an act was a coincidence. Of course, it maybe a coincidence...just highly unlikely."
We note some images that look like tinted or even painted over photographs. Many tinted photographs just added splashes of color. Some were more like painted over portraits. We have not found many of these fully colorized images , but we have found a few. We believe this is an option that some photographic studios offered their clients. They are destinctive in that all have the look of a photogrhaphic pprtrait. They are not very common. but we have foumd s few. They were much more expensive that a standard photographic portrait. Which is why they are so few, presumably because they were so expensive. They are useful in that they provide color information for 19th century black and white photography. You can not be sure about the acuracy of the colors represented, but we believe that most clients would have expected some semblance of accuracy as to the basic colors of the subject's clothing. A reader writes, "Bright colors, in nthis case red (maroon) drawd the eye and create movement if a triangle is created. Here the three yriangle points are the bows and flowers. I am not sure how many colorists were fully aware of the optics involved. Our trader contijnued, "I agree with you. But this colorist or the person who directed the coloring obviously knew because it was used to create two triangles in the picture. Both helped to highlight the girl's and boy's face. I highly doubt such an act was a coincidence. Of course, it maybe a coincidence...just highly unlikely."
