Egypt in color in the 1920s

[likethebeer]

http://www.retronaut.co/2011/02/egypt-1920s-in-colour/

I guess we can see that any color photos before 1960 tend to make me all geeky excited. It's good that I'm easy that way.

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Those are some awesome photos, even aside from the color.

Funny that the color in those days was so primitive, that many of them look colorized. I had to go through quite a few on that page before I found some that were definitely color photos.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

There are some nice compositions on these.

I've gotten so used to seeing these old color photos over the last few months that I didn't even question whether they were on actual color film or not.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I love old pictures, and these, being of another world, seem even older.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

This discussion got me interested in these old, color photographs, so I just bought this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderful-World-Albert-Kahn-Photographs/dp/1846074584