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Hand-painted photographs


 
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Before color film, there was the brush. Explore the delicate artistry of Japanese "Yokohama prints" and Victorian portraits, where local artisans applied watercolors and oils to breathe life into monochromatic scenes.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to hand-painted photographs
2Early examples of painting on photographs
Examples of painted photographs
3Painted daguerreotypes
4Painted salt prints
5Painted ambrotypes
6Painted albumen prints
7Owen Angel: Follett Family Album of Children Costumed for a Fancy Dress Ball (ca 1880)
8Louise Lafton (photographer) / Alexis Godillot (manufacturer): Album Photographique des Uniformes de L'Armées Françaises (1866)
9Painted cartes de visite
10Cabinet cards: Painted
11Painted stereoviews
12Bi-colored stereoviews
13Painted tintypes
14Painted gelatin silver prints
15Painted postcards
Painting daguerreotypes
16Patent: To Richard Beard. of Earl-street, Blackfriars, Gent., for improvements in the means of obtaining likenesses
17Frederick Langenheim: Patents for Coloring Daguerreotype Plates
18Patent: Wm. A. Pratt, Improvement in Colouring Daguerreotype-Pictures (1846)
Colouring kits
19Nineteenth century photograph colouring kits
20Retouching and painting desks
Artists and colorists at work
21Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists
22John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong
Regional styles
23Hand-coloured photographs from the Indian sub-continent
24Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China
25Suzuki Shinichi 1: Japan: Portraits
Contemporary photographers
26Saul Leiter: Painted nudes
27Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc
Colourising the past
28Colourising the past

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