Colorsnap! Colour Photography, the Market in Patents and the 1929 Crash
Colorsnap! Colour Photography, the Market in Patents and the 1929 Crash
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色彩捕捉！
DOI：
10.1080/03087298.2021.1953260
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发表时间：
2021
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0.2
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Henning M
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作者：
Henning M
英国小型公司Colour Snapshot(1928)Ltd在1928-1929年间推出的ColorSnap过程虽然非常短暂，但在彩色摄影过程的几个历史中被提及为彩色摄影错误开始的关键例子。这类描述强调了技术质量和糟糕的产业组织的问题，但忽略了市场在专利方面的关键作用，以及在此期间投资实践的变化。从1926年到1929年，伦敦证券交易所(London Stock Exchange)出现了一股疯狂的投机投资热潮，这些公司吹捧与留声机、广播、电影、摄影和照相电报相关的媒体新创新。像大多数这样的公司一样，Colour Snapshot缺乏经验，完全依赖于一项未经测试的专利的成功。公司发起人采用了当时常见的低价策略，结果公司资本不足，无法为生产提供资金。彩色快照在1929-33年的大萧条中被清算。本文将其放在更广泛的市场文化中，放在发明的文化实践中，以及现代性和创新的意识形态中。它认为，ColorSnap的兴衰反映了当时发明和投机金融的机会主义做法。
Although very short-lived, the Colorsnap process, promoted in 1928–29 by the small British company Colour Snapshots (1928) Ltd, is mentioned in several histories of colour photography processes as a key example of a false start in colour photography. Such accounts emphasise problems with technical quality and poor industrial organisation, but miss the key role of the market in patents and changes in investment practices in the period. From 1926 to 1929, the London Stock Exchange saw a frenzy of speculative investment in companies touting new innovations in media, linked to gramophone, radio, cinema, photography and photo-telegraphy. Like most of these companies, Colour Snapshots was inexperienced and completely dependent on the success of an untested patent. The company promoter deployed the then-common strategy of underpricing, consequently the company was undercapitalised and unable to finance production. Colour Snapshots was liquidated in the Great Slump of 1929–33. This article situates it in wider cultures of the market, in cultural practices of invention, and ideologies of modernity and innovation. It argues that the rise and fall of Colorsnap expresses the opportunistic practices of invention and speculative finance of the time.