http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/these-haunting-photos-by-autochrome-pioneer-mervyn-ogorman-are-102-years-old/story-fnjwubd2-1227383534129

Do you find these 102 year old images “haunting”?

Were old black and white images haunting to people 100 year ago?

Will the clear and colour pictures of today be haunting to people in 100 years?

Speedy said:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/these-haunting-photos-by-autochrome-pioneer-mervyn-ogorman-are-102-years-old/story-fnjwubd2-1227383534129

Do you find these 102 year old images “haunting”?

Were old black and white images haunting to people 100 year ago?

Will the clear and colour pictures of today be haunting to people in 100 years?

Arty, yes. Haunting, no.

We’ll all be confined to history one day, no matter how grand or humble were our aspirations and achievements or how ethical we were in trying to gain them.
Old photos make us look at the big picture.

Peak Warming Man said:

We’ll all be confined to history one day, no matter how grand or humble were our aspirations and achievements or how ethical we were in trying to gain them.
Old photos make us look at the big picture.

Part of my job at the Info Centre is to digitise old photos & compile a town history.
So far there about 2000 images in the archive with lots more to process.
We have had two exhibitions in our Heritage Gallery. The first was our main street from the late 1800s & the current exhibition is the early Tableland timber industry.

Peak Warming Man said:

We’ll all be confined to history one day, no matter how grand or humble were our aspirations and achievements or how ethical we were in trying to gain them.
Old photos make us look at the big picture.

Yes.

I think old photos/videos makes us more aware of our own mortality.

Also, living in an old home can do the same. I think people in Europe, for example, live differently from us because of their environment. We tend to focus on building and renovating like it’s going to last forever. They tend to keep it in better perspective and tend to focus on something else, like fashion, travel or socialising at the pub.

Speedy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

We’ll all be confined to history one day, no matter how grand or humble were our aspirations and achievements or how ethical we were in trying to gain them.
Old photos make us look at the big picture.

Yes.

I think old photos/videos makes us more aware of our own mortality.

Also, living in an old home can do the same. I think people in Europe, for example, live differently from us because of their environment. We tend to focus on building and renovating like it’s going to last forever. They tend to keep it in better perspective and tend to focus on something else, like fashion, travel or socialising at the pub.

Mainly in the UK they focus on having a plumbing system which works.

Speedy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

We’ll all be confined to history one day, no matter how grand or humble were our aspirations and achievements or how ethical we were in trying to gain them.
Old photos make us look at the big picture.

Yes.

I think old photos/videos makes us more aware of our own mortality.

Also, living in an old home can do the same. I think people in Europe, for example, live differently from us because of their environment. We tend to focus on building and renovating like it’s going to last forever. They tend to keep it in better perspective and tend to focus on something else, like fashion, travel or socialising at the pub.

Even conquers fade and become irrelevant over time

Cymek said:

Even conquers fade and become irrelevant over time

But not explorers, as long as they are the first.

Not too many firsts happening these days. Those on the shortlist to Mars are onto something.

From the article : “O’Gorman shot the “Christina” series in autochrome, a process that produced colour photographs decades before the invention of colour film in the 1930s” .. Eh? What’s Autochrome if its not a colour film?

pommiejohn said:

From the article : “O’Gorman shot the “Christina” series in autochrome, a process that produced colour photographs decades before the invention of colour film in the 1930s” .. Eh? What’s Autochrome if its not a colour film?

It used multiple strips of monochrome film

Very attractive woman in the photo

dv said:

pommiejohn said:

From the article : “O’Gorman shot the “Christina” series in autochrome, a process that produced colour photographs decades before the invention of colour film in the 1930s” .. Eh? What’s Autochrome if its not a colour film?

It used multiple strips of monochrome film

Colour film uses multiple layers of monochrome film.

wiki covers the technique. it is more like a tv screen phosphor coating from what i can make out.

It’s a film that produces ( reasonably) realistic colour images. Sounds like a colour film to me.