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Position:Home>Visual Arts> History of Selective Coloring?Question:I was watching Antique Road Show and this Civil War image was shown ...a tin type with just the sash colored http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive... It appears selective coloring is not such a new, MySpace type effect afterall. Does anyone else know of some older examples? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I was watching Antique Road Show and this Civil War image was shown ...a tin type with just the sash colored http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive... It appears selective coloring is not such a new, MySpace type effect afterall. Does anyone else know of some older examples? Well, I knew about selective color in movies for a while. I just didn't realise that it has been in still photography for so long. I guess it's popularity in this myspace age, and the often extreme and un-creative (read "crappy and careless") use of selective coloring nowadays has made it seem like a very recent bad idea. When it's actually an old idea being used badly. Interesting to know. When they only had black and white film, they would actually paint on the picture to make it color. In my photography class we printed in black and white and had these markers that were especially made for selective coloring of prints. I don't remember what they were called however. But I have some old photos of my grandparents that have been painted. Wow, I was just watching this while I was on foal watch. Such a small world... That has to be the oldest example that I have seen. Well, I'll bet if there are any older examples, they'd be pretty hard to find! Now if you find images of Civil War soldiers pouting out their lips, then I think I'll faint. I have a picture of my father with color painted in, but it's not just a single color. I think it's funny how girly they made him look, like he has makeup on. I'm not a photo historian, but I don't think the current SpaceFace craze originated in the 1860's. More likely its origin is The Girl In The Red Coat, from the film Schindler's List (1993), which MySpace Cadets have likely been ordered to watch. V |