Puritans avert your eyes. One of my guilty photography pleasures is colourizing black and white images. While I still prefer the black and white originals, the colourized images have a way of amazing me. Glass plates show details lost, or some new clarity. The artifacts, lifted emulsion along the edges, and absurdity clearly on display. This process also connects one of the earliest forms of photography with the encroaching new AI capabilities. While the AI usage is cringey, if I were utilize watercolours ala George Melies the b&w original would be lost. Zebra Dry Plates is currently working on Autochromes. A dinosaur from the early 20th Century, using glass plates and colour dyes on potato starch. I would certainly travel down that rabbit hole when the opportunity arises. Below are a selection of colourized glass plates.
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