Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/10/photographer-discovers-and-develops-19th-century-childs-cat-photo.html
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Whatever the technology, cats and dogs are always going to be the most immortalised subjects. I only wish the little girl had marked down the names of her fur babies.
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That cat is most definitely dead by now.
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whoever took the photo as well, unless the photographer was a tortoise
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I love spotting dogs and cats in very old photos. Since they (usually) aren’t wearing any clothes to place them in their time period I like to imagine they are time travelers.
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That’s what our feline overlords would have you believe.
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Sorry (not sorry) to be pedantic, but the glass negative was actually developed 120 years ago. Mr Stern has printed and colourised the old negative, and done quite a nice job of it too.
Photographic development is, or was, the process of chemically making the invisible latent image captured by a photographic emulsion visible, so it can be printed. Photographers used to do this all the time, up to the approximate end of the 20th century.
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Welcome back, little guy!
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Comments like these are why I love the BBS! They help me improve the accuracy of my writing. Someone is always a subject-area expert. I’ve learned more about terminology for crafts, guns, history, tech, and so on from people pointing out my errors.
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that kid was a great photographer. that photo is a beauty.
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Exactly what I was thinking while watching the video, the only flaw, from the point of view of someone who’s been a keen amateur photographer for years, and worked in print pre-press using Photoshop as well, and that is the focus point is a bit off, ideally it should be the nearest eye, but that’s being horribly nit-picking, it’s a lovely photo, and it’s a shame that I doubt any of the child’s relatives will ever see this lovely restoration.
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Glass negatives are e bit of a hassle to work with, but unless you drop them, they will last.
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