Notebook - Paris 1900

The Detroit Photographic Company, which became Detroit Publishing Company in 1905, purchased at the end of the 1890s the rights to use the Photochrom process, patented in Switzerland in 1888: a variant of chromolithography, it allows from a black film and white to colorize and retouch an image by transfer...

The Detroit Photographic Company, which became Detroit Publishing Company in 1905, purchased at the end of the 1890s the rights to use the Photochrom process, patented in Switzerland in 1888: a variant of chromolithography, it allows from a black film and white to colorize and retouch an image by transfer onto lithographic plates, one per color. Taking advantage of the Private Mailing Card Act of the American Congress in 1898, which granted postage of 1 cent to postcards, compared to 2 cents for letters, the company flooded the national and then global market: 40,000 negatives worked by 40 craftsmen, 7 million photochromes produced each year, and offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Zurich. In Paris as elsewhere, the photographers remain anonymous (except William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), pioneer photographer of the American West), but they make us admire here all the prestigious places of the capital (Versailles included), in adding the Ferris wheel on Avenue de Suffren and the Palais de l'Électrcité du Champ-de-Mars, highlights of the Universal Exhibition of 1900, as the Eiffel Tower had been of that of 1889. The DPC is bankruptcy in 1924, overtaken by new photographic reproduction techniques.

Notebook 64 pages
14.8 x 21 cm (A5)

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