ISBN: HB: 9783967041231

Bookport, Gestalten

January 2024

256 pp.

30,0x24,0 cm

colour illus.

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Colors of Life

Early Color Photography Enhanced by Stuart Humphryes

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"The Colors of Life" transports readers through the lens of autochromes and paget plates—from the infancy of early color photographic processes—and enhances detail and definition and dynamic range to create a startlingly new way to connect to the past.

This compilation showcases over 200 photographs enhanced by Stuart Humphryes, capturing people from various backgrounds and their everyday lives, at leisure, and at work. With the use of cutting edge enhancements, these early colour photographs and their stories come to life in a way they preciously never could. The book a reminds us the the past was as real as the present and has the power to evoke personal and shared emotions that resonate across time.

"The Colors of Life" is a captivating journey into the past, using the technology of the present to allow readers to see and experience history in a new and vibrant light.

About the author

Stuart Humphryes is a digital artist, photo restorer, and writer, and also a content creator active on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Formerly known as a print and TV colorizer—focusing on work relating to the BBC television series Doctor Who—Humphryes has generated a new following interested in his photographic enhancement work. His work has received accolades from The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Stage, The Metro, The Radio Times, The Mail on Sunday, BBC Online, BBC America, The National, FX Magazine, Starburst Magazine, Wild West Magazine, and many others.