It's a family photo that I was invited to see was kept for decades and shows these ladies in their youth.

I looked at it, look at the details of the passage of time, but it was very nice to see this work because they are my mother and sister.
This image is printed on canvas giving the effect of being an oil painting and has retouches drawn and colored remember the photos of that era were only black and white by 90%, his intervention was by hand as a drawing his frame in wood with plaster details that are being lost but show the elaborate detail was an expensive job because having something like this was only done in some stores called "Photography Studios" which was the way of life of those who had this job as a photographer , they were more dedicated to make portraits of people, from the beginning when there was availability to the cameras and chemists with which the photographs were revealed.
In those stores they had in a space that they called the dark room that was a kind of a laboratory to be able to reveal the film called the negative that was the one that had the camera and thus see the final work.

And here we are the sister of my mother with her eighty plus years she is the one on the right in the old photo and I where you can see how the laws of Mendel left their mark as I look like my mother who is the dress yellow.

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Brief history of these works.

This photographic work captured my attention and I began to investigate the subject and I knew that the first photograph in history dates from 1826 and still exists, it was taken by a French engineer Nicéphore Niépce and in 8 years it will be 200 years old and it continued working and Evolving like this for almost 120 years, color photography was developed later. The first known is more than 150 years old but its use was not so common until the middle of the 20th century when the Polaroid camera was popularized by the masifico. Although the first color photo is known since 1861 it was attributed to the British Thomas Sutton and his collaborator Clerk Maxwell. One detail is that many times when photographing people they left with their eyes closed and the photographer took the trouble to paint them as open eyes on the photograph sheet.

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I leave this reflection.

Photography plays an important role in our lives keeps us together with our memories many nostalgic many happy, in old age help to keep more accurate the memory of the experiences lived, for the family is the way to recognize us by the physical resemblance or activity work and if we put it on photographic paper it allows us to see it on a daily basis and shows us the changes over time.
¡ Una fotografía cuenta siempre una historia. !

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