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Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era
- winter_blue 6y agoTruly amazing photographs. Takes you away to another time and reality.
- frankzander 6y agoAnd you realize that in a way they where the same humans like we are today ... maybe they did have fewer troubles
- 082349872349872 6y agohttps://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan/Man_with_rickshaw_on_tall_tree_lined_dirt_road._(19955330021).jpg?fit=max&w=2400 https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe... were the freeways of their day: public works projects (the trees provided shade, and a slight windbreak, for travellers) that also looked impressive when viewed from the fields of areas they passed through.
- antiterra 6y agoMaybe when those roads were made, but, in the era of the photos, things were relatively modern. They had paved roads and telephone poles. Cars, motorcycles and airplanes came into the picture right at the very end of the Meiji era. This one is from Nikko, which, even then, was a getaway from the big city. It shows some of the civil infrastructure in an ostensibly rural area: https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan/Mount_Nantai_and_Daiya_River.jpg?w=600 https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe...
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoThough beautiful in places, and certainly fascinating, I'd like to mention the oft-overlooked fact that this documents quite a lot of people's bloody hard lives. I think it's important to recognise and appreciate our own good fortune in comparison to others'.
- Aardwolf 6y agoAmazing, the quality makes you feel as if you're there. Sometimes the coloring looks a bit odd, e.g. here: https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan/Men_making_clay_moulds_for_giant_masks._(19942519282).jpg?fit=max&w=2400 https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe... For others, I almost can't believe it's hand painted, this looks like it's a real color photograph with such fine detail and natural colors: https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbert-geddes-life-in-japan/Mount_Nantai_and_Daiya_River.jpg?fit=max&w=2400 https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/collections/herbe... Actually, it's almost always the red paint that's the most clearly manually done, I wonder what made the blue/green/yellow easier, maybe just because they're more subtle
- junon 6y agoThis is outstanding. One thing I noticed is how "modern" their hairstyles appear. One even appears to have a fade. Just a random observation.