Одесса в цвет / Odessa in Colour: 1890-1900

Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях Одесса в цвет 190090-1900 Pre-Revolutionary Russia in photographs Odessa in colour 1890-1900 Music: From “Sweet Dreams“ from the Piano cycle ’Children’s Album’ by P. Tchaikovsky. Here I present the first in a series of photochromic images of Odessa in the Crimea. These were taken in the years 1890-1906. Photochrom prints, also called Aäc, are ink-based images produced through “the direct photographic transfer of an original negative onto litho and chromographic printing plates.“ Hans Jakob Schmid (1856-1924), who worked for the Swiss firm Orell Füssli, invented the technique in the 1880s. Füssli published the prints through a company with the imprint Photochrom Zürich, later Photoglob Zürich. Other companies that licensed the process starting in the mid 1890s included the Detroit Photographic Company (later Detroit Publishing Company) in the United States and the Photochrom