Title: The painted photograph, 1839-1914 : origins, techniques, aspirations /
Authors: Henisch, Heinz K.; Henisch, Bridget Ann.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Photographs Coloring History.; Photography Printing processes History.; Color photography Processing History.; Photographs Processing History.
Abstract: With its rich variety of illustrations in color and duotone, The Painted Photograph is the first comprehensive history of overpainting, from its origins to World War I. The 131 illustrations featured draw upon original 19th and early 20th century sources, most from America and Britain, but also representing Japan, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Poland, Canada, Bohemia, India, Australia, Norway, Holland, and Russia. In describing a multitude of early techniques, the authors survey overpainting on various types of photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and imprinted porcelain, milk glass, enamel, magic lantern slides, and textiles. Particularly fascinating are discussions of overpainted death portraits, most commonly those of children, and the origins of popular "picture postcards" featuring overpainted landscape scenes. The Henisches address also the eager acceptance of the painted photograph throughout the world, despite the hostility of the art-critical establishment.
Contents: Discovery and disappointment -- The tinted daguerreotype : Nature versus nurture ; Color on the silver plate -- The hand-worked paper print : Retouching, problems and opportunities ; Nature versus nurture, revisited ; Charcoal and color ; Pigments, fast and fading ; Prudent practice ; Color and crime ; Die Druckluftpinselretuschiermaschine -- Color on hard media : The lure of larger formats ; The painted tintype ; Photographs on milk glass, ceramics, and enamel ; The color specialist ; The magic of the lantern -- Photographs on canvas : Techniques and procedures ; Deft deceptions -- Ambitions and applications : Great expectations ; The studio, facing the public ; Landscape and genre -- Foreign approaches : Britain, France, Italy, Canada, South Africa, Russia, Baltic lands, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, Balkan lands, Latin America, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, India -- Ground combat : Prejudice and promise ; Achievement and acclaim.