Colour by Hand: Tinting, Photochrom, Chromolith

Before cameras kept colour, people painted it: hand-tinted portraits, Wallace Nutting’s coloured prints, photochrom postcards, chromolithography — the crafts that made the 1800s a colourful century anyway.

Playlist by @color_plate_birth

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How obsessive artists colorize old photos — Vox
2. How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world — Vox
3. A Brief History of Colorization — picsandportraits
4. Painting Pictures: An Overview of Early Hand-colored Photographs — Morris County Historical Society NJ
5. Wallace Nutting The Hand-Colored Process — Michael Ivankovich
6. Wallace Nutting A Retrospective(Early 20th Century Hand Colored Photographs) - Virtual Tour — Bundy Museum of History and Art
7. World in Color: Chromolithography, Advertising Ephemera, & the Visual Landscape with Diane Bockrath — Hagley Museum and Library
8. Chromolithography at the Museum of Printing — Shoshana Burgett
9. Chromolithography - Art History — Lindsey Terry
10. Photochrom Prints of France — Finalblossom
11. 1926: The Origin of Colour Cinema — One Hundred Years of Cinema
12. [4k, 60fps, hand-colorized] (1907) The Red Spectre - Le Spectre Rouge, Segundo de Chomón. — Nineteenth century videos. Back to life.
13. The invention of colour — University of Bristol
14. How Colorized Historical Footage Is Painstakingly Made — Smithsonian Channel