The problem with such colorized photos is that they are, of course,
fantasies.
They are fun and interesting, but they are not fact, nor are they history.
Alvin Coburn's autochromes of Twain are the real deal even if their pigments
have changed a bit over time; colorized photos are not.
I had a photo of Twain pacing on a porch colorized for the cover of a book
Alan Gribben and I edited in 1983, and others have appeared over the years.
No colorized photos have captured the blue of Twain's eyes, the heavy yellow
tobacco stains on his mustache, or his delicate pink skin, and some bestow
white hair on him long before age did so.
Fun, as I said at the risk of pooping on a party, but not fact.
Kevin
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From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo
> Folks-- This photograph (and the practice of colorization) has already
> been=
> discussed on the Forum. See the Forum thread of 10 October 2013 with the
> S=
> ubject line "Colorizing photos from 19C: including MT," started by Hal
> Bush=
> . Here is a link to that initial Forum posting:
>
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1310&L=3DTWAIN-L&P=3DR1242&I=
> =3D-3
>
> The article cited in his e-mail--containing the same colorized photo of
> MT,=
> at Dollis Hill--is still a functioning URL:
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446391/Amazing-Civil-War-photograp=
> hs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-characters-life-color-time.html
>
> The location is verified as Dollis Hill, 1900, per a Forum posting at that
> =
> time by none other than Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Project:
>
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3Dind1310&L=3DTWAIN-L&P=3DR1824&I=
> =3D-3
>
> The copyright for that photo, as it appears in the Daily Mail, is "Mads
> Dah=
> l Madsen / Dynamichrome."
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> M. L. Christmas
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 3/8/14, Fred Harwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo -
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, March 8, 2014, 11:37 AM
> =20
> The link contains as much as I know
> about the photo.
> =20
> Google around for the source. My brief effort suggested that
> many have =3D
> posted it, but without linking to original work.
> =20
> =20
> On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Kit Barry <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> =20
> > Thank you for this image. It came out very well on my
> printer.
> > Since this image is going into the archive I curate, it
> would
> > be most helpful if I could add the following
> information:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 When was photograph taken:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 By whom:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 Where was photograph taken, as in
> Hartford, Elmira, other:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 Was the original photograph a sepia
> print, black & white:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 When and by whom was the photograph
> colorized:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 Method of colorization:
> >=3D20
> >=A0 -=A0 Is it known why this photograph was
> taken, as in for a special =3D
> occasion:
> >=3D20
> > -=A0 Was this photograph used for a specific
> purpose, as in publicity:
> >=3D20
> > Thanking you in advance,
> >=3D20
> > Kit Barry
> > The Ephemera Archive for American Studies
> > Brattleboro, Vermont
> =20
> Fred Harwood
> Linwood Cottage
> Sheffield
>
>
>
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