Photography & Digital ArtJUL 28, 2016

Ca 1905 Rediscovered Victorian Lantern Slides Have Been Given A Breath Of Life.

Today we take photography pretty much for granted, it has become incredibly accessible across many platforms. At one time however, it was quite different. The advent of photography required subjects to be patient, exposure times were far longer than today, so maintaining a smile was not an easy thing to do. As exposure times and costs have gone down, so have people's guards, albeit slowly and over a century. The vast majority of photographs of Victorians show stiff and unsmiling people. But it's the technological limitation we see, not the people. These lantern slides show another side to photography of the time, contrary to the attitudes of the era and widely misheld beliefs of today.

The lantern slides were taken at the turn of the 20th century and are held in the U.K by the Northumberland Archives. They lend well to colorization simply because they are so animated. Nothing is known about the subjects whatsoever.

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