Citoyen MRNov 25, 2022

This is one of my favorite pictures. It feels like it was taken yesterday… but it was taken in a Paris public garden nearly a hundred years ago. Everything feels modern: the composition, the casualness, the daring clothes, haircuts, and accessories.

The colors are original: this is an #autochrome, using the first process for color #photography invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

The women are unknown, but I can't help wondering how they fared a few years later in nazi-occupied Paris.

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@citoyen

Is it known who took the picture and if they did more?
It is a very suprising picture for that time period

Show threadSam ​Nov 25, 2022
@AuriBlackCat @citoyen The photographer was André Zucca
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@Skreee @AuriBlackCat is that so? The Musée Nicéphore Niepce which has it in its collection says it's by "Anonymous" on its webpage.
Nov 25, 2022 at 2:37pmWeb
Show threadSam ​Nov 25, 2022
@citoyen That name is give on the web and seems to fit with his oeuvre. This might be a case of everybody copying everybody else on the web. But some of the articles are about an exhibition of his in 2008 which was quite controversial, so I think that's a good reason to think it's his.