Woman with baguettes, France (date unknown)Photo: Donald H. Sultner-Welles / National Museum of American History

@kevinrns why do you say that?

@kevinrns @sk76 Or not: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/archival-collection/sova-nmah-ac-0145?edan_fq[]=place%3A%22France%22

@sk76

Its not because I checked.

Just a useless blurt.

@markgould13 @sk76

Or not. Does the link refer to this photo, these photos?

@kevinrns @markgould13

If I post a colourized pic without saying so, I would be glad for someone to point it out.

I personally don't colourize, and only share photos from actual archives - not random sites, and I'll always provide the source if any wants to google it to find the url.

@kevinrns @markgould13

yeah that's the museum collection it came from. Photographer known for colour photos mid-20th century.

@sk76 @markgould13

Thank you for correcting my blurt.

Some color photo systems produce widely different products using wildly different processes and chemicals.

Adding a question mark would have been a more accurate way for me to post.

@kevinrns @markgould13

No worries. I'm not a photographer so much of that (colour systems) is over my head.

I did notice that some of this man's images (not this one) are noted by the museum as being "chromogenic phototransparencies" - if that helps.

@sk76

OK, I want to be like her when I get old(er): walking home from the grocer’s with a bag full of ingredients for this evening’s dinner (“there was a special on salmon, and mangoes are back on the shelves”), a brace of outrageously large baguettes, and a bouquet of flowers for the table.

@darkmirror when I first went to Paris in 1983, my friends and I were obsessed with how many people you’d see throughout the day walking and carrying a baguette. Eventually we started buying them during our adventures, in order to fit in

@sk76 @markgould13

I am already above my pay grade. When color is added, or now often removed, it catches my attention, but only ignorant attention.

Color photos included in a narrative, can be grey-scaled now to imply age.

@kevinrns @sk76 @markgould13

its legit slide film of the era. My late father was very much into photography especially in 1970s and 1980s and shot a lot of slide film in his youth, in Malaysia (his native country), Europe and UK.

So I got to learn at an early age the subtly different colour rendition of various filmstocks (Kodak, Agfa and Fuji) from when Dad put them in the slide projector, and I'd also read his photo magazines and learn about things like ISO/ASA, grain etc.

Unfortunately my family weren't affluent enough in 1980s for me to do much photography, so I only got back into it when digital cameras became common but I can recognise the "look" of certain films (modern digital cameras, especially from Fuji sometimes also try to emulate these)

@vfrmedia @sk76 @markgould13

Cool