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Costumed man examining jewelry (pawnbroker?)

from George Eastman Museum

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  • Lú_ said:
    Is there a known painting that might have been a model for this?
  • Phil Stripling said:
    This is a wonderful color photo. All my views of that period are of more nearly drab blacks, whites, and grays. It's fascinating to see the rich colors people actually available.
  • Alan Millar said:
    Could be the introductory scene for Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.
  • Edward Uchalik said:
    Very mysterious image of old!
  • towering finger said:
    I love this one! For the richness of the colours and for the fact that he might have been a jeweller. My brother was a bench-jeweller by trade, he'd love this portrait. It does indeed look like a painting.

Genre scene, woman in kitchen peeling vegetables

from George Eastman Museum

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  • Barby Bu said:
    amazing shot, this is a fantastic collection
  • Miguelángel said:
    Fantastic history lesson, providen by you collection.
    This photo es great, yes sir: Good selection!
  • Romina De Rossi said:
    Stupenda.. un "ritratto" alla Vermeer...
  • Alan Millar said:
    How on earth did they get the dog reasonably sharp? 10 pounds of magnesium powder flaring like a super-nova? Or was it stuffed? ;)
  • celticpixl said:
    Those autochromes still look fantastic today!
    The French Lumiere Brothers invented the process using a potato paste.
    Albert Kahn, the French Industrialist, sent photographsrs around the world recording autochromes.

Woman posed as sphinx

from George Eastman Museum

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  • jehan.tremback said:
    hahah wtf
  • minions & myrmidons said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Face Time, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • Lú_ said:
    this is a marvellous photograph -- I'll have to hunt more W. Simon through your site
  • Canardo said:
    A classic...
  • Arif Islam said:
    Hahah, this is awesome, liked it very much !

Still life study, bowl of fruit behind gold frame

from George Eastman Museum

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  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    @ anartist on flickr -- A. (Alfred) W. Simon, of Buffalo, NY, was an American photographer, born in Canada in 1836. He published a large number of albumen print stereographs -- notably of the significant buildings and views in Buffalo, NY and the surrounding environs.

    Dr. W. (William) Simon, (1843 - 1916), the creator of the photographs in this Autochrome series, was born in Eberstadt, Germany in 1843. He was a Professor of Chemistry at the Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was an expert in autochromatic photography.

    He had the distinction of having taken the first color photograph of a rainbow.(!) --NY Times