Found Photos: The 1930s In Full Color

[chris_williams19]

<p>I heard this story the other day about the found photos of Charles W. Cushman on NPR and found it fascinating. And after seeing the photos myself, I am even more enthralled and I wanted to share with the greater Photo.net community.<br>

It's basically about a guy who bought his first roll of colour film in 1938 and then nearly obsessively shot colour pictures for the next 30 years.<br>

<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/09/14/161016597/found-photos-the-1930s-in-full-color">CLICK</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.npr.org/news/specials/2012/cushman/">CLICK</a></p>

[cyanatic]

<p>Thanks, Chris. At first I thought this would link to an article on early color photos that had already been posted on P-Net, but I have not seen this before. Very interesting.</p>

<p>This makes me wonder how many wonderful negatives and photographs have been thrown away over the years, the person putting them into the trash not even being aware of the potential treasures they were thoughtlessly discarding.</p>

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<p>"Photography is not a contest… It's about being a witness to your times."</p>

<h5>—Rich Remsberg</h5>

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[don_baccus]

<p>Also cool are the color chromes from Shackelton's ill-fated voyage to Antarctica in the 19-teens.</p>

<p>There's also considerable color movie footage from WWII, which started about a year after Cushman started shooting color.</p>

 

[dhbebb]

<p>This was in the news in the UK just recently:<br>

<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/09/discovery-of-first-colour-movies-reveals-animal-stars.html">http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/09/discovery-of-first-colour-movies-reveals-animal-stars.html</a></p>