The American annual of photography (1917) (14597530877)

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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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are so many things that areleft for the future to discover new things in photography, newthings for us, but really old, only we do not know them, al-though they exist and this especially applies to colorphotog-raphy. In the early time of photography it was thought that photo-graphs would show the colors of objects, and in fact therewas more done in real direct colorphotography then than eversince that time, with the exception of the Lippman process.There was a long interval between then and now when therewas hardly anything produced in the work of colorphotog-raphy. Recently the subject has been taken up with more zest,but the photographs in colors produced today are not like inthe earlier days done by optical and chemical action alone butwith the additional aid of a mechanical means, i.e. by employ-ing artificial colors either as a means of colorfilters throughwhich the colors of nature are filtered, or of coloring the finalphotographic medium (plates or paper) with actual color- 182
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o Q < O o o H CO I—I w 183 material or both. While the results are beautiful the final re-sultant pictures are produced partially only by the photo-graphic process, the other part is mechanical and being par-tially mechanical, the final picture can never be an absolutelytrue one of the colors of nature, although of course they canand do come very near to truth, showing especially the colorsin their relativeness to each other. But to come back to the old times in photography in colorsand applying thereto the new ideas in colorphotography, thequestion is, could not perhaps in that way the secret of real orat least more real colorphotography be solved? The meansby which this might be accomplished must of necessity bespeculation at present. The most direct way, of course, wouldbe to reproduce a colored object direct on silver emulsionplates or paper in colors instead of in monotones or black asis done now. It is well known that the salts of silver assumedifferent degrees of c