Original_Colour_Photo_of_Albert_Bierstadt,_c._1895.png
Summary
Description Original Colour Photo of Albert Bierstadt, c. 1895.png |
English:
Unretouched three-colour collotype of the painter Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902), made by his brother Edward Bierstadt (1824 - 1906). This may be the oldest surviving real color photograph of a human being.
At the sitting, three pictures through different color filters were made. The sitter had to stay perfectly still for multiple minutes. Then, the negatives were printed on top of each other with the colour of their respective filter, thus showing a full colour image. The exact date it was made is unknown, but Bierstadt sent this print to Elbridge T. Gerry on November 11, 1895. Edward Bierstadt first exhibited colour photographs in 1878 and colour portrait photographs in 1892. In 1895 he claimed to have made colour portraits by July 1890. |
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Date | between circa 1890 and November 11, 1895 | |||||||||||||||||
Source | Hanson, D. (2013). Edward Bierstadt: Color photography and color printing. | |||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q5341892
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Licensing
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The author died in 1906, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929. |
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This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
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