This is such a remarkable Autochromes plate, which displays an expert understanding of light, depth and composition which is more akin to a painting. It was photographed in colour 112 years ago by Franklin Price Knott and depicts a native American woman shrouded in the foreground trees with the ancient South Pueblo illuminated in the distance. The photograph was taken in Taos, New Mexico, in 1914 and is original colour. It isn't colourised.
As Labour try to force our farmers to shift to lentils from meat & place Solar Panels on fields…
Russell Abbot reminds the Public about how high the standards of British Family Farms are
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I have cleaned-up this remarkable Autochrome portrait of the great French sculptor Rodin (1840-1917), looking statueque, draped in a white sheet in his studio 119 years ago. Rodin is most famous for creating 'The Thinker' and considered the founder of modern sculpture. This colour photograph was taken by Edward Steichen in 1907, showing Rodin seated in front of his sculpture "Eve". It is an early colour glass-plate process and not colourised.
In 2010, a Paris apartment was discovered that had been left untouched and abandoned for 70 years.
The apartment once belonged to Marthe de Florian, a well-known Parisian courtesan of the 1890s. During the Nazi occupation of Paris, her granddaughter fled the city and never returned, yet she continued paying rent on the apartment each month until her death in 2010 at the age of 91.
When the apartment was finally opened, one of the executors described it as “like stepping into Sleeping Beauty’s apartment.” Inside, furniture, paintings, and personal belongings were found exactly as they had been left, untouched for seven decades.
On a bedroom wall hung an unsigned portrait, which was later identified as a painting of Marthe de Florian herself by the renowned artist Giovanni Boldini.
Though she had been largely forgotten by history for 70 years, the apartment preserved her life in remarkable detail, as if nothing had ever been lost.
When Roger Scruton (1944-2020) organized an "underground university" with lectures and smuggled literature in Czechoslovakia in 1985 he was detained by the dreaded secret police StB (Státní bezpečnost), interrogated and expelled, his colleagues had to eat incriminating evidence like something out of a movie. Now the Communist agencies (the usual NGOs etc.) operating in Cambridge are targeting the foundations operating there in his memory and name.
Meanwhile Cambridge itself or the Yookay Government does nothing to honor the most important British philosopher of the 21st century.
What a disgusting situation, and I say this as a huge anglophile.