Hand tinted photographs

Bering Photography

These colorized photos of 19th century Japan are from the Harvard University archives. Blind masseur giving massage to young woman sitting on futon, ca. 1890 Boat on Sumida River, near Tokyo Buddhist priests and nuns playing musical instruments on the street, ca. 1890 Children learning calligraphy from master calligrapher, hanging scroll and folding screen with decorative painting in background, ca. 1890 Drawing water from the well, ca. 1890 Ferry boat, somewhere in Japan, ca. 1890 Four…

Add some color! Kodachrome is extinct,but I do not expect to see a return to hand painted photographs. I don't mean "contemporary artists" who ruin old prints by doctoring them up, I mean the real thing, usually done with Marshall's Oil Colors, an early supplier to those stuck with black and white film. One of those "art of the people" things and available to anyone who read the back pages of Popular Mechanics or home hobby publications. Gone the way of candy dishes, aperitifs, formal dress…

Handcoloring is the technique of adding color to a black and white photograph. The process dates back to the earliest days of photography and its purpose was to add realism to the prints.

Learn how to get that vintage look by hand-tinting your black-and-white family photographs.

This new exhibition traces the advancements in Russia, looking at the development of the country's social history through the growth of colour photography over a century.

Auction Result Tinted Darling Portrait Ambrotype Photograph Sold in Skylight Gallery

ca. 1860s, [hand tinted ambrotype portrait of a young man sporting a provocative hairstyle] via Capitol Gallery, Ambrotypes & Tintypes

This beautiful short film reminds us about a part of the photographic process that most of the people reading this will have never experienced:

Hand-tinted photograph of Japanese girl making paper bird (origami). Location: Japan. Date taken: 1900.