Early Colour Photography and its Contexts in Britain, 1890 to 1935

英国早期彩色摄影及其背景，1890 年至 1935 年

• 批准号: 2787578
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2787578
• 关键词: Early; Colour; Photography; its; Contexts

When colour photography emerged in industrialised societies in the late nineteenth century it attracted both scientific and aesthetic interest. Over the course of nearly fifty years, from 1890 until 1935, the accessibility of colour photography changed dramatically, culminating in the widespread uptake of Eastman Kodak's Kodachrome colour reversal technology in the late 1930s. Kodachrome redefined the photographic industry. It was celebrated as the solution to nearly one hundred years of research and development concentrated on finding a way to make affordable and practical colour pictures, and was so successful that by the early 1940s it had usurped the majority of competing colour processes.This research challenges the prevailing notion that the flourishing industry for colour photography before Kodachrome resulted from continuous developments in science. It shows how transformations in capitalism and changing cultural ideas about colour contributed to the conception and delivery of colour photographic products during this period. Although most nascent colour photography enterprises failed, the sheer volume and technological diversity of processes introduced suggests an enormous amount of creative vitality on the part of a wide range of stakeholders. Through consideration of the meaning of colour in contemporary British society, and the economic and social networks that underpinned the industry, this thesis aims to establish a stronger understanding of the competitive and dynamic market for early colour photography between 1890 and 1935.

当彩色摄影出现在工业社会在世纪后期，它吸引了科学和美学的兴趣。从1890年到1935年的近50年里，彩色摄影的可及性发生了巨大变化，最终在20世纪30年代后期广泛采用了伊士曼柯达的柯达彩色反转技术。Kodachrome重新定义了摄影行业。它被誉为近百年来研究和开发的解决方案，专注于寻找一种方法来制作负担得起的实用彩色照片，并且非常成功，到20世纪40年代初，它已经取代了大多数竞争的彩色过程。这项研究挑战了流行的观念，即柯达彩色之前的彩色摄影行业的繁荣是科学不断发展的结果。它展示了资本主义的变革和不断变化的色彩文化观念如何在这一时期促成了彩色摄影产品的概念和交付。虽然大多数新生的彩色摄影企业都失败了，但所引入的工艺的数量和技术多样性表明了广大利益相关者的巨大创造活力。通过考虑色彩在当代英国社会中的意义，以及支撑该行业的经济和社交网络，本文旨在对1890年至1935年早期彩色摄影的竞争和动态市场建立更强的理解。