The number of old autochromes floating around on the internet seems about endless; just when i think I've seen most of them i stumble across some wonderful little collection that i had no idea existed, such as the color photography work of the celebrity/San Francisco photographer Arnold Genthe. I think i'd only seen his black and white pictures of Greta Garbo, which are great in their blurry silent film kind of way, but these color photographs are so much better!
At least to me, since i'm extra into romantic things with a dark, kind of creepy edge . . . These portraits have the same sort of cinematic feel but i think these might be a bit more eerie, because every story i try to imagine up for these scenes ends up dark, and don't the girls in these portraits look a little like ghosts?
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