bonjour.

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Queen of the Cosmos. 1844, J.J. Grandville 

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uffizi at its best.

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The Love Letter by Jean Honoré Fragonard // “All My Loving” by The Beatles

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A Tour of the World in Photochromes

In the 1880s, Hans Jakob Schmid perfected a magnificent photographic colour printing process, called Photochrome. Starting from a black and white negative transferred onto as many lithographic stones as colours required in the final image, a subtly nuanced print was achieved at a time when colour photography was still only in its infancy.

At that time, Hans Jakob Schmid worked at the Orell Füssli Printing Company in Zurich, which took out a patent for this process in 1888 and founded the company Photoglob Zürich (P.Z.), with the express purpose of marketing the images in very varied formats, up to 40x50 cm, which enjoyed an immediate success and well beyond Switzerland’s borders. The First World War and the arrival on the market of the first colour photography processes sounded the knell of Photochrome.

The Swiss Camera Museum is displaying a sizeable collection of Photochromes, including large format views, sometimes panoramic, albums and various smaller collections, touristic pictures, which constituted a real invitation to travel across the world at the turn of the XIXth and XXth centuries.

Images and text via

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi (via purplebuddhaproject)

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Pietà, (1498–1499) Michelangelo Buonarroti

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doorways of reykjavik, iceland.

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cafe meets bookstore- selfoss, iceland.

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cafe babalu. reykjavik, iceland.

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cafe haiti. reykjavik, iceland.

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Saint-Jacques Tower, Paris (c.1509), last remaining piece of the Church of Saint Jacques demolished during the French Revolution.