source: Xinhua net Shandong channel
yesterday, citizen Xu Hongtao donated a batch of photo remake to the Ji'nan times of the Ji'nan commercial port of the last century, one of which sparked an argument - the photo was in black and white. Color processing, or the original color photo?
color photos reappear the flourishing "two roads"
reporters see, these remake photos that reflect the Ji'nan commercial port color photos on the Japanese language. To clarify these meanings, the reporter specially invited Professor Gao Hua of the Japanese Department of Shandong Normal University to translate.
Professor Gao Hua said the Japanese language in the photo: in 1905, the Qing government opened the commercial port spontaneously. The commercial port was a place where foreigners lived in business. The commercial ports were about ten li, and the north and south about five li. The "two roads" in the photos were the most prosperous streets in the commercial ports, and the banks, clubs and big stores on the street were on line. Along this street, we can enter Ji'nan through Puli men. It is also noted in the note that the photo was taken at the intersection of "two main roads" and "Wei three road" in Ji'nan commercial port.
in this color picture, you can see clearly the situation of the two road at that time: the neon billboard, the golden yellow plaque, the human rickshaw, the red building, the silver gray car running on the street, and the Yellow advertisement banners over the middle of the road... The pictures were crowded with people, a busy scene.
[b] is the original color photo controversial? [/b]
is this picture the original color photo, or is it made by color processing on the basis of the black-and-white photo? In this regard, donors and related people hold two opposite views.
Xu Hongtao said the photo was found in a magazine by a friend of his friend in Japan, when his friend found the picture reflected in the Ji'nan style and bought the magazine and brought back to the country, which is now remade from the magazine. Xu Hongtao, who has a lot of research on photography, told reporters that according to the color of the photo, the difference of color and the subtle difference in various colors, it can be concluded that the color illuminant is the original color photo taken on the spot, not the later color processing.
Xu Hongtao thought the picture was taken by a Japanese. Photography technology in Japan has been relatively advanced, and color photography technology has appeared in the 30s of last century. Mr. Xu also told reporters that, almost in the same age as this photograph, Robert Kappa, a famous American photographer, had taken a color picture for president Mao Zedong.
to this end, the reporter searched for American photographer Robert Kappa through the Internet. The search results showed: "at the end of September 1938, Robert Kappa took the first color photograph published by Kodak 35 millimeter film..."
but Wang Mingguang, director of the technical department of the Municipal Archives Bureau, looked at the color picture and said that although the color in the picture was very realistic, it was difficult to decide that it was the original color picture, and it did not exclude the possibility of the later processing. Because at present, there are almost no color photographs in the collection of pictures collected in 30s. At the same time, Wang Mingguang said, from the image of the figures and the street features, it was sure that the photos were taken in Ji'nan in the 30s of last century. The color of the photos is basically a real reflection of the original color.