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photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av singhals » 12 jan 2008 03:08:54

I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl

JD

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av JD » 14 jan 2008 17:59:55

singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote:

I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl

I never saw the other discussions, and I've never known of the popularity
of a style that imitated charcoal drawings per-se.. but Wikipedia has a
pretty good summary of the dates & techniques used at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-coloring

Hope that helps some.

JD

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av JD » 14 jan 2008 18:10:36

singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote:

I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl

You got me curious.. I found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print

Could this be what you were referring to? If so, it looks like 1855 through
about early 1900's, but scatterd use until even today! Never seen one, I'll
have to keep looking!

CWatters

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av CWatters » 14 jan 2008 19:07:54

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl

Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s but
after 1920 it was less popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring

singhals

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av singhals » 15 jan 2008 17:30:47

JD <jd4x4@ wrote:

singhals <singhals@erols.com> wrote:


I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl


I never saw the other discussions, and I've never known of the popularity
of a style that imitated charcoal drawings per-se.. but Wikipedia has a
pretty good summary of the dates & techniques used at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-coloring

Hope that helps some.


Thanks, I'll check on it.

Cheryl

singhals

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av singhals » 15 jan 2008 17:33:32

CWatters wrote:

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
news:QLydnWBoNI-rvBXanZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@rcn.net...

I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl


Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s but
after 1920 it was less popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring




Flippit. I guess that explains why I didn't keep careful
track of the exchange.

I have a wall-sized portrait where the hair has been
charcoaled in. The woman died in either 1899 or 1885, and I
was hoping the date of popularity would help pick one.

[For clarity: the woman is the wife-of; he had two wives of
the same first name, one died in 1885, one in 1899; I'd sort
of like to know which one we have a picture of.]

Cheryl

Bruce Remick

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av Bruce Remick » 15 jan 2008 18:20:32

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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CWatters wrote:

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl


Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s
but
after 1920 it was less popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring




Flippit. I guess that explains why I didn't keep careful track of the
exchange.

I have a wall-sized portrait where the hair has been charcoaled in. The
woman died in either 1899 or 1885, and I was hoping the date of popularity
would help pick one.

[For clarity: the woman is the wife-of; he had two wives of the same first
name, one died in 1885, one in 1899; I'd sort of like to know which one we
have a picture of.]

Cheryl


I've got a pair of framed sepia-toned portraits of (non-direct) relatives
that have the fine detail of photographs, but also have an airbrushed
charcoal-retouched appearance. They are large 16" x 20" and are on heavy
cardboard. Father (1825-1886) and son (1850 - ), their apparent ages in
the portraits would suggest a time period in the 1870's (the son was married
in 1874), but of course any enhancement work could have been done well after
that. The current owner of the original house in Maine in which they lived
found the two portraits in the attic and gave them to me.

Bruce

singhals

Re: photograph enhanced with charcoal

Legg inn av singhals » 15 jan 2008 22:12:02

Bruce Remick wrote:

"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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CWatters wrote:


"singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message
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I know we've covered this (g), but be darn if I can find it
in my saved mail or on Google ... and I don't see it in my
hard-copy books soooo:

I need the dates that it was popular to hand-color film
photographs to look like charcoal drawings.

Thanks!

Cheryl


Wikipedia suggests hand colouring was done from the 1840s to mid 1950s
but
after 1920 it was less popular.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring




Flippit. I guess that explains why I didn't keep careful track of the
exchange.

I have a wall-sized portrait where the hair has been charcoaled in. The
woman died in either 1899 or 1885, and I was hoping the date of popularity
would help pick one.

[For clarity: the woman is the wife-of; he had two wives of the same first
name, one died in 1885, one in 1899; I'd sort of like to know which one we
have a picture of.]

Cheryl



I've got a pair of framed sepia-toned portraits of (non-direct) relatives
that have the fine detail of photographs, but also have an airbrushed
charcoal-retouched appearance. They are large 16" x 20" and are on heavy
cardboard. Father (1825-1886) and son (1850 - ), their apparent ages in
the portraits would suggest a time period in the 1870's (the son was married
in 1874), but of course any enhancement work could have been done well after
that. The current owner of the original house in Maine in which they lived
found the two portraits in the attic and gave them to me.

Bruce






This one is 1/3 of a set (g); the other two don't appear to
have been "improved". They were in my grandmother's attic
from about 1947 until her death in 1997. She got them from
her mother when her mother sold off; her mother took them
off the walls of the house where they'd hung since purchase.
At one time they were in massive frames, but I can't
remember the frames which means they were long-gone by the
1960s.

Cheryl

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