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Performers at the Jazz walk at Meadowbrook Park in Urbana, IL. This duo, Katie Flynn and Will Yanez, were quite good. I really fell for her lovely voice.
The dawn of the color photograph: Albert Kahn's archives of the planet: Digital Photography Review →
Book:
Published in conjunction with the BBC television series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn, this handsomely published collection brings together over 300 autochromes - a type of early color photographs - made from 1909 to 1929. The common visual imagination of the world from the invention of photography to the mid-Twentieth Century is largely in monochrome.more…[source: DP Review]
Picture the Civil War, World Wars I & II, or any other event large or small during those years, and because it was photographed in black and white, it likely conjures up similar imagery in the mind’s eye. Color photography existed from around 1900 but because of its expense, scarce availability, and technical limitations, it was not widely considered a tool for reportage or fine art until as late as the 1960’s. How shocking (and delightful) it is to see the first several decades of the 1900’s rendered in beautiful color. Albert Kahn, a wealthy banker and philanthropist commissioned several photographers to capture the world using the relatively new autochrome process. During the twenty years of Kahn’s project, he amassed nearly 72,000 color images.
(via New York City photos by Charles W. Cushman reveal 1940s life in the Big Apple | Mail Online)
This is why I love and shoot editorial photography.
Beautiful film by Renan Ozturk following Jimmy Chin as he photo documents climbers at Yosemite.
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