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 MRNov 25, 2022
@markkrueg thanks for the english link
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 threadCitoyen MR
@ferrous @markkrueg the link is an english language page talking about the museum's acquisition of the anonymous autochrome.
Nov 25, 2022 at 7:07pmWeb
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