We invite you to a new exhibition dedicated to the history of color photography.
The exhibition "Cautioun! Colored!" includes more than 50 photographs from the museum's fund and private collections. The exhibition covers key stages in the history of coloring black-and-white images – from the earliest attempts to add color, dictated by the limitations of the new technology, to the conceptual searches of modern authors.
The world saw the first daguerreotypes and calotypes in 1839, and their amazing realism caused real delight among the public. At the same time, viewers were disappointed – the images were devoid of color. Inventors made many attempts to capture and fix the color, but all their efforts were in vain. Therefore, the idea of coloring the pictures by hand arose almost immediately.
In the middle of the 19th century, when mass portrait photography was just beginning to develop, viewers were still guided by the traditions of painting and the aesthetics of miniature portraits. Colored photographs brought the new technology closer to the usual visual language.
This practice did not bypass stereo photography. There were both regular cards and those made on thin paper, colored on the back. When viewed in a stereoscope through a special window against the light, these images not only created the illusion of volume, but also, thanks to the addition of color, literally came to life before the viewer's eyes. The exhibition presents works from the 1880s to 1900s.
Hand-coloring has shown itself to be especially interesting in Japan. Here, the technique of European photography met the traditions of miniature and lacquer painting. In the display cases of the exhibition, you can see albums from the period of the 1890s-1900s.
One of the sections of the exhibition is dedicated to mizunotype, a unique technique invented in Japan at the end of the 19th century by Hanbei Mizuno. The result is not so much a photograph as a decorative work that combines photography, crafts and traditional art.
Even in the 20th century, when color photography became relatively accessible, hand-coloring did not disappear. For example, in Soviet photo studios of the 1950s-1970s, photographs were often hand-colored, since color film was expensive.
Photo colorization as a conceptual technique became popular at the end of the 20th century. The exhibition features works by Igor Savchenko, Sergey Sveshnikov, and Viktor Ilyin.
Today, colorization of archival photographs using neural network algorithms is widespread.
We invite viewers to think about what it means to “add color” to a black-and-white image and what role colorization plays in the history of photography.
The exhibition “Caution! Colored!” precedes a large project dedicated to the history of color photography, which will be presented to viewers at the ROSPHOTO Museum at the end of the year.
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