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Photographs of 19th Century Japan

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444 points merothwell | 1 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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prmph ◴[10 Apr 25 09:34 UTC] No.43642267[source]▶
The color detail of these pictures is so detailed and beautiful. Were they really hand colored? The color absolutely looks like something that would be computer generated. If they were indeed hand colored (when?), that would be an absolutely massive amount of painstaking work.
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1. FalseNutrition ◴[10 Apr 25 12:53 UTC] No.43643291[source]▶
They were dyed, rather than painted. The details come from the photograph.