#1910s colours

[mote-historie]

Georges Lelape, Des rubans (Ribbons), La Gazette du Bon ton, 1913

[skelecha1rs]

Tristan and Isolde, John Duncan (1912)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927) "Winter. Maslenitsa festivities" (1919) Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha. The traditional attributes of the Maslenitsa celebration are the Maslenitsa effigy, sleigh rides, and festivities. Russians bake bliny and flatbread, while Belarusians and Ukrainians cook pierogi and syrniki.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Dowager Queen Alexandra sat and pictured the day of her granddaughter's wedding, October 15th, 1913.

[shihlun]

Damaged tinted glass lantern slide showing early historical view with billboards advertising Asahi Beer and Jintan in Tientsin China. 1910s (?)

[une-sanz-pluis]

god spare me from articles about Henry VI's death written by Ricardians going, "how do we even know Henry VI was murdered? huh? huh? Tudor propaganda!!"

[designedandplated]

Women's dresses, 1913.

[majormisunderstanding]

Detail of Thea Proctor’s coloured linocut Flower Shop, c1919.

Art Gallery of New South Wales.

[panicinthestudio]

Faces of colonialism: the story of an imperialist propaganda, September 7, 2023

For a long time, photographer Robert Lohmeyer shaped the European view of Africa. During his travels, from 1907 to 1909, he photographed the German colonies -- in color, for the first time. In doing so, he laid the photographic foundations of racism. The young photographer‘s trip to the German colonies of Togo, Cameroon, German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania) was taken at the height of German imperialism. In his photographs of his travels, Robert Lohmeyer generated enthusiasm for these distant lands that Germany considered its possessions. Making use of the most up-to-date photographic equipment at the time, Lohmeyer’s project was a meticulously planned PR campaign. Its goal? A celebration of colonialism and empire. Lohmeyer’s resulting photography books were seen by huge numbers of people. Even today, the pictures are still in circulation. Lohmeyer's photos convey the image of a "peaceful savage" in a paradisiacal landscape. A colonial idyll. Because the images are in color, they evoke a feeling of authenticity and truthfulness. War, disease, hunger and death do not appear in Lohmeyer's pictures. Based on unpublished written sources and photographs, the documentary follows Lohmeyer's journey. It tells the story of a chapter in the history of photography. But it also tells the story of a propaganda coup. Finally, the film explores Lohmeyer’s contribution to a new kind of racism -- in color - the effects of which can still be felt today. Deutsche Welle

[diemelusine]

Lugano, Switzerland (c. 1910) photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Library of Congress.

[mote-historie]

Georges Lepape, Cushions, Modes et manières d’aujourd’hui, 1912.

"Voici l'heure toutes si delicate, Si delicates et precieuse, ou goute. Les minutes qui s'egrenneni goutte a goutte. Comme un collier de turquises et d'agates. (Here is the hour all so delicate, So delicate and precious, or taste. The minutes slipping away drop by drop. Like a necklace of turquoises and agates)."

[wightwanderer]

Lost in time.

A Colourized photo of terrier W11, seen at Newport Station in 1910 with a train for Cowes.

Unknown original photographer.

[romanovsotma]

The Three daughters of King Frederick August III of Saxony. Princesses Marie-Alix, Margarete Karola, and Anna of Saxony, 1914.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Colourized photo of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna and Ana Vyrubova, during the summer of 1915.

[demonindistress]

Moving into a new (old) flat next friday. Recieved the keys today.

I want words with the person who decided beige wallpaper was a good idea.

Landlord white, come back! All harsh words I've said were in haste.

[david-watts]

whilst putting the big books back on the shelf, I stumbled across a book of photographs from the collections of a particular photographer from where I live. ignoring the fact that the compilers didn’t know how to date photographs (like did they REALLY think a picture with a horse-drawn taxi and women in lingerie dresses were from the 1930s???) and I found a picture of one of the old k-class garratts on the north-east dundas tramway. love that