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 threadMark KruegerNov 25, 2022

@citoyen Thanks for sharing; this is so cool I wanted to learn more about the photo. Here is information from where it is currently archived:

https://en.museeniepce.com/index.php?/collections/la-vie-des-collections/Acquisitions

musée Nicéphore Niépce - Acquisitions

Show threadCitoyen MR
@markkrueg thanks for the english link
Nov 25, 2022 at 4:20pmWeb
Show threadFerrousNov 25, 2022
@citoyen @markkrueg I'm confused - when I follow the link I get a page in French that doesn't seem to have this photo?
Show threadFerrousNov 25, 2022

@citoyen @markkrueg when I hunt for the photo using Google Lens I get this post captioned "Very rare color photographs of Parisian women in the 1930s taken by Jules Richard and Andre Zucca".

One of them, with sunglasses that match the ones here, also appears on a couple of other sites credited to André Zucca...

https://twitter.com/CultureTrip/status/723044904998412288?t=jNc_76H6ey3_EatDiIDEMw&s=19

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“Very rare color photographs of Parisian women in the 1930s taken by Jules Richard and Andre Zucca.”

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Show threadWesDymJan 22, 2023
@ferrous Please do not link Twitter. Don't feed the beast.
Show threadCitoyen MRNov 25, 2022
@ferrous @markkrueg the link is an english language page talking about the museum's acquisition of the anonymous autochrome.
Show threadFerrousNov 25, 2022
@citoyen @markkrueg the page I'm seeing looks like this...?
Show threadSDNov 26, 2022
@ferrous @citoyen @markkrueg me too, must be the mobile site whooshing us away from a link that probably works on desktop browsers
Show threadMark KruegerNov 25, 2022

@citoyen @ferrous Yes, I am sometimes seeing an alternate page now. The link seems be be a bit unstable. Here is an archive just in case it happens again:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221012225522/https://en.museeniepce.com/index.php?/collections/la-vie-des-collections/Acquisitions

musée Nicéphore Niépce - Acquisitions