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How
to Color Photographs:
Detroit
Publishing Company photographs were initially shot in
black and white. The photographer would take notes
describing the scene and the colors. After he developed
the photograph, the production manager would mark up the
color instructions on a print and a retoucher would color
the print. Color prints were then produced by lithography,
a process of printing from a flat surface on which the
image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area
is ink-repellent. The Detroit Publishing Company
held the exclusive North American rights to Photochrom,
a Swiss-patented method of color lithography.
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Production
managers Edwin H. Husher and William H. Jackson oversaw
the color production process. To transform a black
and white photograph into a color print, they probably relied
as much on their experience as landscape painters as the
memory and notes of the photographer who shot the original
scene.
Color
instructions on front of photograph of Herald Square, New
York City, copyright 1904.
Larger
version of image .
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Copyright
© 2003
The Henry Ford Last
Updated:
01/17/2003
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