New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-19
WILL PORTRAY NATURE
COLOR PHOTOS" SOON TO
BE PRINTED.
Remarkable Results already At
tanned Seem To Be Heralds
of Complete Success.

Latest achievements IN the development Of color
photography point TO the probability that negatives
transferred to paper. In brief. color photographs
will probably become subject to printing process
before long. So say those who have been expert
menting In the science IL viii be great day for
the photographer. the publisher and the consumer
or the output OF 10th when this comes to pass.
When the autoehrone image can be transferred 10
a sensitized paper Just like ordinary photographs
and reproduced In books magazines and daily
newspapers and even enlarged without losing a
TINT the average mortal will realize that the dying
machine is not the only great and useful invention
Of the twentieth century. There IS much 20 be said
about the beauty and usefulness Of color phot0s-
raphy in its present state OF development. but IL
Is practically stained glass window stage. II
is fixed and enlarged replica In glass OF what one
sees IN the Hinder OF his camera He cannot frame
II or hang IL except in window. nor can he du-
picate H. Break IT, and the picture Is destroyed
forever.
The progressive among professional and amatsur
photographers are now familiar with the CONNER
elai process and find 1t absorbing and profitable
1he results they are able TO obtain almost I'M
Delevable and must certainly discourage the medi-
ocre dauber In pigments. for while he trying 70
reproduce phase OF nature with weeks OF labor
the camera man dies II IN few minutes. and hix
picture cannot be adversely criticised because Il Is
nature. Many a mere copyist OF faces and asIds
has given up his labors with the brush for the
quicker. easier, surer and more truthful auto
chrome plate
John W Alexander. the portrait painter. has
taken considerable interest In the possibilities OF
color photography In connection with his own
work and that Of other painters landscape artists
especially Mr.. Aoxander's interest in color pho
Biography was aroused by young artist who gave
up the brush for the camera Not long ago tti,
man made several color photographs Of Nfr.-Alsx-
anders studio. and the painter, speaking OF the
incident afterward. said:
This studio of mine doesn't seem very invfti1.
material for picture OF any sort, but NV friend
transformed that corner there where there is
a heap OF odds and ends. old curtain and a ziIt
frame into thing OF beauty in hts picture After
some time spent In arranging the light to suit him.
he made a picture that turned the corner into
something and attractive. giving its lights ana
shades a meaning had never read / realized
then more thoroughly than ever what an artistic
eye can make Of commonplace subjects. NY friend
showed he had preconceved his picture BY his very
arrangement OF detail in order TO produce certain
color tones.
From such a piece OF work that for instances.
the painter may learn useful lesson. With a
camera 70 help him he may seize and fix dehnitsly
forever a transitory phase OF color OF light and
shade TO reproduce at leisure with his paints Chang
ing cloud effects. rainbows. may become sta
toRary and permanent models Portrait pafntiu,
may also be assisted and facilitated by color
photography. This work is difficult for many rsa-
sons, but OF them Is the weary sittngs subjects
must submit 20. painter often loses fitting ex-
pressions. changing shadows and contrasts OF light
and shade because he cannot work fast enough and
the phases do not recur That is where the camera
and the color plate may come in handy and with il
the painter may supplement his sittinss to advan-