Tinted photograph is one of a number of names for a hand-colored photograph, i.e. a black-and-white photographic print to which color has been added by hand. Other names are hand-painted photograph and hand-tinted photograph.
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History
Hand-coloring of photographs and Daguerrotypes became very popular in the mid to late 19th century and remained so up to the widespread introduction of color photographic film. The French Society of Photography banned hand-colored Daguerrotypes from its exhibitions.1 Some amateur photographers and artists still hand-color photographs, but nowadays colorization of black-and-white photographs is most commonly carried out using software such as Photoshop.
Process
A hand-colored photograph begins as an ordinary black-and-white or silver gelatin print. Usually the print is produced on matte finish photographic paper rather than gloss to allow the colors to better adhere to the print. The colors are then applied by hand usually using thinned oil paints.2
Other meanings
Tinted photograph is sometimes also used to refer to photographs produced on dyed printing papers produced by commercial manufacturers. A single overall colour underlies the image and is most apparent in the highlights and mid-tones. From the 1870s albumen printing papers were available in pale pink or blue and from the 1890s gelatin silver printing-out papers in pale mauve or pink were available. There were other kinds of tinted papers as well. Over time such colouration often becomes very faded.
See also
Notes
- ^ Buerger, Janet E. (1989). French Daguerreotypes. University of Chicago Press. p. 148. ISBN 0226079856.
- ^ Laird, Sandra; Carey Chambers (1997). Handcoloring Photographs. Amherst Media, Inc.. 27. ISBN 0936262540.
References
- Baldwin, Gordon. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (Malibu, Calif.: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Museum Press, London, 1991), 7, 35, 55, 80, 81-82.
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