Interesting old photos

Jack Delano also took pics for the OWI and FSA but perhaps fewer of the portrait styles. Still used light well though...

Joself Koudelka - Prague 1968

They sure are. A bit too staged for my taste, but very interesting nonetheless. The detail is apparent, even when looking at them on a computer screen. Large-sized photographic reproductions (or even hi-res digital prints!) would be very nice, I'm sure.

Thanks Sniper.

How didn't I realise it was Venice with all that water about. I've probably sailed past it in one of those floating buses.

1920's lifeguard

 1928 fashion show at the beach

Former slave showing whipping scars

Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they were too short, the women would be fined

A space chimp poses for the camera after a successful mission to space in 1961

"Measuring bathing suits in the early 1920s. If they were too short, the women would be fined"

With legs like that, I'm not surprised...

Winky

Doesn't your final comment contradict point 2).

The colours/details do look wonderful, even with my budget monitor and basic graphics card. The high quality of the originals is definitely not being masked by a basic monitor.

Kevin,

That's amazing that it was taken in more than 200 years ago. It's got that 70s David Hamilton feel.

For one thing, it is very unusual that the subject is not looking into the camera for this period. ( everyone looked like a cigar store Indian in the photograph in those days )

Regarding the Kodachrome look, Alien Skin offers the Exporsure 4 Extension to Photoshop or Lightroom. I mean it's never gonna be like a real McCoy, tho.

Poorman's Kodachrome

This one mimics the Kodak Ektachrome

There's something about analogue film that is so dense and colourful even when they are black and white compared to today's digital photos. Digital camera and lenses got much better in last 20 years but not sure if they actually surpassed the analogue photography.

Oh yes. It is terrific in a glorious Technicolor, isn't it?

Interestingly Hitchcock later goes back in B&W with Psycho which I think has more impact than if it were made in colour. The shower scene is  bloodier than any Technicolor can produce.

Here's another interesting colour photo from the past:

Hugo Jaeger was a personal photographer for Adolf Hitler.

He sold all of his colour photograph of Nazi Germany and Hitler photos to Life Magazine in 1965. Recently for the first time Life.com published some of the photos.

It is indeed unusual since I haven never seen Nazi Germany photos in colour. They are not colorized but some of them look a bit fake. They bring a text book history much closer. Frightening in a way but these are good reminder that hope we never repeat this again. Photo journalism can keep us honest sometimes.

Hugo Jaeger WW II photos

Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923

A mom and her son watch the mushroom cloud after an atomic test 75 miles away, Las Vegas, 1953

Walter Yeo, one of the first people to undergo advanced plastic surgery. His eyelids were damaged in World War I, and he got a skin transplant to replace them.

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit 1929

 Austrian boy receives new shoes during WWII

It wasn't that long time ago. A powerful shot by Gordon Parks.

God - those Nazis were really up themselves.

Perhaps an argument for pink velvet military uniforms - although .....

The Ford Theater, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

Children eating their Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage

Annette Kellerman promoted women's right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907… She was arrested for indecency

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Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight in 1893

Martin Luther King Jr. with his son by his side removing a burnt cross from his front yard, 1960

'Testing new bulletproof vests, 1923'

Good work if you can get it. 

Thanks Kuma, they both look quite interesting - although, as you say, they're no substitute for the real thing. There's a free trial so I will give them a go - the software is quite prcey at $199.

Yes, the JMC "Sadness" pic never fails to amaze me - can't believe it's 149 years old.

PS - This is a great thread. Thanks for starting it Paul.

Just think Kevin. In a few years, people will be googling your images and posting them on a similar thread. Keep up the GREAT work !

The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963

Apollo I crew members rehearsing their water landing in 1966

President Richard Nixon trying to use chopsticks while visiting China in 1972

Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

The original Ronald clown of McDonald's in 1963

 

Hitler's officers and cadets celebrating Christmas, 1941

I don't know which is more sinister, the Nazis or the clown...

Oops.

"Math class is tough." - in my Barbie voice.

Cbr600,

You must have discovered Retronaut.com?

Could have been the inspiration behind Mel Brook's 'Springtime for Hitler' number in The Producers.

Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi party

Love this photo of the war photographer Lee Miller in Hitler's Munich bathtub, taken by her lover David Scherman at the end of the War.

France, 1938.

From the King of Leica users, HC-B: