• @groet@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Thats a child…

    Also is that gold paint added on top of a black and white photograph (I think there is some red paint on his cheeks as well? Pretty cool, never seen something like that.

    • @ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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      51 year ago

      I think it used to be common enough to add a bit of paint to them to highlight certain features. I have my grandma’s senior class photo from the 50s, and it’s got pink/red lipstick and blush painted on an otherwise B&W photo.

    • @LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
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      11 year ago

      Right? He looks like he’s 16 at the absolute oldest

      And yeah, photos were actually colorized fairly often back in the day and there were a bunch of different techniques