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I lit portraits , ie hand-colored. This technique is all art of the early days of photography, and . is to apply color to the original prints in black and white in order to give more realism to the image
Specifically, we speak of our pieces of the museum: a military hand-colored portrait at length (9274 id.). This is a photograph of 10x6 cm showing one of the last soldiers of Cuba, the last of the Spanish colonies in America, roughly dated between 1860 and 1879. To see the true value of this enlightened photography, we encourage you to try hand coloring one of your photographs of similar size. It's a challenge suitable only for the most skilled artists
in the middle of the nineteenth century, still in the early dawn of photography, and they began to make the first experimentations of hand-colored photos, using all kinds of materials and techniques, such co mo watercolors, oils, crayons or pastels, whether applied with brushes, cotton swabs or even with one's fingers . It not for nothing is said that the first photographers were halfway between art and science. The appeal of the colored image evinced mastery of some professionals, who performed works of art, as we have acquired for the collection Foticos.
Although hand coloring of photography she had its origin in Europe, the technique gained significant prominence in Japan, where it became an art. Major Japanese artists developed their skills in Europe and America. It is curious that Cuba , from which the illuminated portrait we have acquired for the collection, was the second country in the world and first in Latin America in officially open the first public portrait studio to the daguerreotype, specifically in 1841 from the hand of photographer George Washington Halsey Among the most common portraits almost 180 years ago, they abounded of military style and those featuring soldiers as presented below:
But the art of illuminated photographs did not disappear completely with the arrival of the autochromes first and achieving the first color photographs later. If you do not use that spanned more than a century until popularized Kodak color film Kodakchrome. In fact, one of the great icons of photography of the Great Depression American, the snapshot of" Migrant Mother" of photographer Dorothea Lange, but was taken in black and white in 1936, it has been seen in various media and exhibitions" enlightened" , ie hand-colored. As you can see, the color brings realism to instant