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.

Show threadwas B (this is my old account)
@citoyen according to these websites, this photo may have been taken during the Nazi occupation as part of a propaganda effort
https://glamourdaze.com/2013/12/color-photos-of-parisian-women-1930s-and-1940s.html
https://measure-ojs-shsu.tdl.org/measure/article/download/31/27
Color Photos of Parisian Women - 1930s and 1940s

A selection of Parisian women from a recently published selection of photos - taken by French photographer Andre Zucca. Though not a card carrying Nazi, he was quite happy to sell his photos taken with

Glamour Daze
Nov 25, 2022 at 3:02pmMetatext
Show threadCitoyen MRNov 25, 2022
@b_cavello Your first link says "The first snap however was taken by Jules Richard of two women in Paris just before the Nazi invasion in the early 1930s! These women are quite daring in their fashion! Image recently discovered and held by Musee Nicephore Niepce"
Show threadonepoint618Dec 1, 2022
@b_cavello @citoyen According to that link, - although it is about Zucca's photos, it specifies that the photographer of this photo was Jules Richard.
Show threadCitoyen MRDec 1, 2022
@onepoint618 @b_cavello To be fair I don't think this is accurate either. The museum site says the autochrome is from an unknown photograph, and also mentions it has the Jules Richard collection of autochromes; but does not imply this specific autochrome is part of it.