Hand-colored Black and White Pictures
First Online: February 21, 2007
Page Last Updated: December 07, 2024
Introduction
Since the advent of digital touching of photographs, the hand-coloring of monochrome photographs is a dead art form. However, to document a glorious era in the world of black-and-white photography, and to do justice to the laborious hours of the artist/photographer K.L.Kamat, who used transparent photo colors to hand-color the photographs, we bring you this online exhibit.
The transparent colors that Kamat has used were actually "see-though" colors that you apply in coats to enhance or manipulate the black-and-white photograph. Cotton stubs and hairline brushes were used to apply the colors. Excess colors were washed and then the photograph was glazed in a glazing machine.
Artificially Colored Photographs
 R.K. Narayan is one of the foremost Indian writers Portrait hand-colored by K.L.Kamat |  |
 |  Tribal Headgear Central India, 1976. Photograph hand-colored by K.L.Kamat |
Coloring of Monochrome Photographs Yields New Form of Art Detail of temple sculpture from Bhatkal, circa 16th century. |  |
 | A Youngster Belonging to Muria Tribe Photograph hand-colored by K.L. Kamat |
Portrait of a Tribal Boy, Bastar Photograph hand-colored by Kamat |  |
 | Halakki Gowdatis in Synchronized Rice Pounding (Photograph is hand-colored by K.L.Kamat) |
Transparent Color Enhances the Beauty while Preserving the Original Definition Picture shows medieval musicians of Bhatkal |  |
 | Young Couple Picture of newly wed couple, 1980 |
Tribal Man, Madhya Pradesh |  |
 | Tribal Woman, Madhya Pradesh |
Parents and their Child Detail from a medieval sculpture, Bhatkal |  |
 | Woman Churning Curds Hand-colored photograph of a Bhatkal sculpture |
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