Photo Colour photos, Paris, 1914

[Neil]

Calling all Francophiles take a look at these spectacular colour images of Paris from just over a century ago. No trains to be seen, but still well worth some of your time.

 

[Dikitriki]

Brilliant.....literally

 

[Scanlon]

Magnifique!

 

[unklian]

Great stuff, thanks for the link Neil.

 

[steve1]

And what changes might there have been in these people's lives 6 months later I wonder?

steve

 

[Wagonman]

Those are some of the brightest Autochromes I've ever seen. Superb, though for sheer atmosphere I still prefer Atget...


Richard

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

This puts paid to 'those black and white days' and gives a good insight to the colours of the clothing, signs, street furniture, buildings of the day inter alia . What is more apparent is the lack of road traffic and Albert Kahn's Autochrome collection is far greater than shown here.

They are indeed a very useful source of research material as are any pre-WWII colour photographs and films. Although the photograph or film subject may not be exciting, however it's the background I find fascinating as I'm looking to see what's there. They also give an overview of social history.

 

[farnetti]

Superb. I wonder what would happen now, a hundred years later, if you went to sleep on the pavement with half a bottle of wine standing by your head?