An original color photograph made for color separations using the carbro process by Harry Warnecke, a Daily News photographer. Likely the earliest color photograph of a baseball team by a commercial photographer. Titled and dated in pencil on recto
Harry Warnecke (May 2, 2012 - January 12, 2013)
Well before color reproductions and color snapshots became commonplace, pioneering photographer Harry Warnecke (1900–1984) and his associates at the New York Daily News’ Color Studio created brilliant, richly-hued portraits for the newspaper’s Sunday News magazine.
Employing a special one-shot camera of his own design, Warnecke began producing color images for the Daily News in the 1930s by utilizing the technically demanding, tri-color carbro process—an early form of color photography. Over the course of several decades, Warnecke and his team photographed hundreds of people in the news, from popular film stars and athletes to military leaders and government officials.
Drawing from the NPG’s collection of large-format, tri-color carbo photographs originally created under the auspices of the Daily News, this exhibition will feature twenty-four celebrity portraits from the 1930s and 1940s including Lucille Ball, Jackie Robinson, Babe Didrikson, Gene Autry, Ethel Waters, Generals Eisenhower and Patton, and comedians W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy.
Print Size: 15” x 21.5”
Frame Size: 19” x 25.5”
Edition: 1/1
$12,500.00