Month: August 2021

In an attempt to create more realistic images, photographers and artists would hand-color monochrome photographs. The first hand-colored daguerreotypes are attributed to Swiss painter and printmaker Johann Baptist Isenring, who used a mixture of gum arabic and pigments to color daguerreotypes soon after their invention in 1839. (colorized) Yashica-D, medium format film, Twin Lens Reflex camera with 80mm f3.5 Yashinon lens (TLR). Landscape/Pet photography in New York.

(a colorized black and white photo) The Staten Island New York home of one of the first street photographers, Alice Austen. She was introduced to photography at age 10 in 1876. She produced over 7,000 photographs of a rapidly changing New York City, making significant contributions to photographic history, documenting New York’s immigrant populations. One of America’s first female photographers her photographs represent street and private life through the lens of a lesbian woman whose life spanned from 1866 to 1952.

91 year old German made VOIGTLANDER medium format 120 Brillant model camera, loaded with 35mm Arista 100 film, developed with Rodinal…(colorized) ..The Staten Island New York home of one of the first street photographers, Alice Austen. She was introduced to photography at age 10 in 1876. She produced over 7,000 photographs of a rapidly changing New York City, making significant contributions to photographic history, documenting New York’s immigrant populations. One of America’s first female photographers her photographs represent street and private life through the lens of a lesbian woman whose life spanned from 1866 to 1952.

91 year old German made VOIGTLANDER medium format 120 Brillant model camera, loaded with 35mm Arista 100 film, developed with Rodinal…The Staten Island New York home of one of the first street photographers, Alice Austen. She was introduced to photography at age 10 in 1876. She produced over 7,000 photographs of a rapidly changing New York City, making significant contributions to photographic history, documenting New York’s immigrant populations. One of America’s first female photographers her photographs represent street and private life through the lens of a lesbian woman whose life spanned from 1866 to 1952.

Garden gate on the grounds of the ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE
DOUBLE EXPOSURE

The Staten Island New York home of one of the first street photographers, Alice Austen. She was introduced to photography at age 10 in 1876. She produced over 7,000 photographs of a rapidly changing New York City, making significant contributions to photographic history, documenting New York’s immigrant populations. One of America’s first female photographers her photographs represent street and private life through the lens of a lesbian woman whose life spanned from 1866 to 1952.