Heinrich Kühn
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Heinrich Kühn was one of the earliest color photographers. Working from Austria he was one of the most notable European Pictorialists of the early 20th century, working in his quest for the Perfect Photograph.
Working most notably using the early Autochrome process, Kühn became an early master as a color practitioner. His work was ahead of its time and still quite relevant today despite the crude nature of process, chemicals and materials available during his lifetime.
Kühn was notable both as a scientist and an artist. His polymath nature landed him a special place in the history of photography. - Věda a technologie
You do such a wonderful job by showing us all these amazing photographers....thanks Ted!
This episode helped me conceptualize a thought I already had in the back of my head. For a young person like me (19 y/o) this kind of episode is just mind blowing... I am almost sad to live in a time when everything is simply handed to us and we don't really have acknowledge or any relationship with the process so it is less likely for us to appreciate it. Thank you Ted for showing us this kind of work in your channel, hopefully more people will start to appreciate what they do and the tools they have to make it so.
OTOH.. back when film was expensive and a somewhat current camera was out of reach for a kid like me who grew up working class poor in the 1980s.. modern day tools are cheap and accessible: an 8 year old laptop and $200 used digital camera can do things that I couldn't have done with a rented (high end for its time) SLR and full dark room facilities back in college..
Just because you didn't have to mow lawns or work in a tire shop to afford the limited toolset available back when I was 19, doesn't mean that the work you produce on your iPad is any less relevant for its time, which is today.
Technology has greatly democratized the photographic hobby, for good or bad. I can still recall shots that I could have easily made with what I have today versus what I didn't have then-and if I were 19 today I could afford the modern day tools to do so!
i think its just the opposite.
when i was a kid, i dreamed about 35mm nikons that where WAY out of reach for me.
30 years later, i own a hasselblad, a Nikon F3, a bronica ETRSi for everyday use and for all of this i paid less than for a prosumer DSLR.
I think we are in glorious times :)
@@lisaw150 My Fuji cameras get frequent "Ooh, is that a film camera?" comments. Especially the leather case clad X-E1 with a smaller lens, looks to the untrained eye like a film Leica.
Still though, point taken. No one mistakes a Sony for a film camera.
@@Bolton115 On the other hand:film is expensive again.
@@mjoelnir58 It isn't the film which is expensive, it's the scanning into digital. Especially with medium format-it's a joy to shoot, fun to develop, but time consuming or expensive to get it scanned.
Autochrome photographs feel like I'm looking at someone's memories inside their head. What a beautifully warm and haunting style.
He might be the inventor of HDR photography. He developed a process with two emulsions of different sensitivities on one glass plate. The result was a much larger range of tonality than what was available via the standard glass plate of that time.
His family was not poor. He could dedicate himself to photography and science and experimenting. His family had invested most of their money in war bonds. That meant that they were poor by the end of WW1. It probably explains why things about Heinrich went quiet after that time.
I find it amazing they have not been able to recreate the quality of the Lumiere brand of autochrome plates to this day.A book I would suggest is "The Lumiere Autochrome:History,Technology and Preservation".A wonderful book with detailed discussions involving the technology and history of the process.Also includes several portfolios of photographs made using the autochrome process.About the cheapest I found it was on Amazon.
I've always loved older film photography and have a huge respect for the process, but this work is inspiring on a whole new level.
I loved this episode Ted!! thanks a lot for introducing us to this artist!!
Incredible stuff Ted, keep up the good work and many thanks!
Many thanks for this illuminating video. Trying, even at my late age to discover the history of the progression of photography, and, without doubt, you really bring the subject alive, Bravo!
There is so much to be leaned from those who came before. Thanks Ted!
Ted, this is a perfect episode, thanks and congratulations, I'm really impressed with how you are able to lift the AOP to the different level you're looking for!
AuthenticSound Thanks Wim!
Thank you Ted Forbes! Your job is timeless
8:30 It's like looking at a picture from an early 2000s camera-phone or P&S digital camera or something. Because the noise reminds me of digital noise, as opposed to film-grain. - Also, the process of autochrome, as it's described, reminds me of digital sensors and displays and such.
It's kinda like we started all over again...
So Ted, you mention in this video, that Kühn's work after 1918 is difficult to find. Researching Kühn online, I find it interesting, that he had invested his fortune in war bonds and lost it 1918 with the end of WW1.
I'm guessing, there is a connection there.
Anyway, you made these videos to last... Very interesting!
I'm very glad that I came across with your channel, I really enjoy it, you are doing a very important work and I believe that everyone interested in photography should know its history...!!
Thanks!!
You're a born teacher. Great!
Really enjoy your videos & way you present Thanks for sharing them to all us 'Togs' ..young and old!
Great lectures Ted. Packed with really useful information of degree level quality.
Thanks for the ongoing education, Ted. Wonderful stuff.
Outstanding log. So detailed and informative.
Another terrific episode!
your passion is contagious. well done
Great end line, learn to smell the Roses again... have a nice weekend.
Informative and interesting video. Thank you Ted!
Hey Ted! This is a fantastic presentation! The material is so interesting and I loved the in depth discussion. My only gripe would be the white of the book is overexposed, but this is just a minor detail. Fantastic video!
Great video. You inspired me to buy this book. I got it for a reasonable price. I love it. Was worth every penny. Beautiful work.
you are such a wonderful art teacher
refreshing in the digital age....yes,,we need to smell the roses !!
Superb episode on an under appreciated photographer! Have you considered doing episodes on Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Paul Outerbridge, Francesca Woodman, or Ansel Adams' portraiture and Kodachrome work? Other under appreciated names that spring to mind not brain are Jerome Ducrot (excellent '60s fashion photographer - I believe Richard Kalvar (spelling?) was his assistant), Bob Carlos Clark(e), David Hamilton, Gertrude Kasebier, Clarence White, David Hockney, Harry Callahan, and Stanley Kubrick (yes, thatvStanley Kubrick, before he was a filmmaker he was a photographer), there are many more - sorry if any of these are duplications of photographers you've already done., I haven't been through your whole repertoire of episodes yet...
Fascinating, thank you
You're great.... Thank you
“He was way ahead of his time”
Every time 😂
Thanks for this episode, really enjoyed it. It brings to my mind a question: "Is Holography an art?" It is so similar to autochrome process: it is a unique image (can't be copyied using current technology), can't be printed, it is still experimental, tight connected with science and experimentation. Any chance you look into this?
Other than the use of the word 'crude ' in several instantces, where prototypical or even primitive in the strictest sense of that word would to me at least been better,an excellent vid. Don't mean to nit pick but what may seem so to us must have been quite astonishing to the people of that era.Your passion shows,just recently found your channel,enjoy immensely.
You mentioned Gaussian distribution.... I mean I am amazed that how much of knowledge you have.... You're a photographer, you used to be a museum ceuretor, a musician.... I am amazed :-) ....
I kanda want that crude color!
Thanks Ted Heinrich Kuhn is someone im going to check out a bit more, The whole Autochrome process blew my mind when i first found out about it a number of years ago, not sure why as i knew colour photography was nearly as old as Photography full stop, but i think it's the fact we are so used to seeing the early 20th century Edwardian world in B&W when you see it in colour it becomes almost 21th century, Someone that impressed me was Mervyn O’Gorman and his autochromes taken near near Lulworth Cove in Dorset sometime cira 1913
phototechnology2011id.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/autochrome-lumiere-by-mervyn-ogorman/
Mark Donohue Beautiful stuff! Would have been right after Kühn - love it!
To comment on your closing remarks when you closed his book, the "Slow Photography Movement" is alive and well... I am a founding member of a film only Facebook collective group with 700+ members... These things are not gone yet!
Let’s not forget DEGAS, RENOIR, SEURAT, et. al. from whence his aesthetic arises. These images don’t just appear in a vacuum.
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The only thing that really dates his photo is the clothing at least as shown on video. I am really glad I came across this video I need something to feed my curiosity about the true masters of photography.
off topic, but I noticed that you say "okay" less often than you used to :)
Wow
where's the pic from the thumbnail though
21:18 that one is interesting, too bad they printed it across a damn fold
Take a breath!
Ted, The cheapest that Amazon has it for is over $80 ... OUCH!
Brian Richman yeah not a fan of Amazon for used books. Powells and Ebay might be a better bet. Dude - you're in Dallas - keep an eye out at Half Price Books or Recycled up in Denton.
NOOOOOO!!!!!! Not *IN* the actual bookstores themselves. My credit card is badly bent out of shape as it is!!! I'd be bankrupt in 10 minutes... "Must get this one", "Only one more", "Is THAT all it costs?", "How much?", "I can just afford that last book". This is the path to ruin!
Brian Richman Yeah - beware of the "Law of Used Bookstores". It states 1) If you're looking for something you won't find anything and 2) If you're just browsing you'll be broke by the time you leave. ;-)
And now it is about 150 to 200 euros.And not only at amazon, everywhere.
Amazon used 365 dollars
too much talk too little looking
Nicholas Berardo i really liked the background information
Well.. No