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House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison [RESTORED]
Entitled: House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] H Morrison [RESTORED] The original image was a very low resolution (551X600 970kb JPG) that I doubled the size of. This of course created a lot of artifacts which I then did spot removal on. I smoothed and evened the woman's skin. The area behind the stove was a horror of empty shadow that I repaired and reconstructed with either enhanced or manufactured detail. I added a light layer of random noise, to give it a "grainy" feeling like that of old film, but to also blend some of the jaggedness that remained from the size doubling. A sepia was added, then a faux duotone (blue shadow, yellow highlight, with extra yellow in the beams of sunlight and glow from the stove).
Hedda Morrison was a tremendous resource for images from the latter part of the Republican China years, photographing extensively with a 2 1/4 Rolleiflex Twin Lens (my personal roll film favorite) during her 13 year stay in China (from 1933 - 1946). Coincidentally, she then married into the family of and bears the name of another very famous China photographer; she married George Ernest Morrison's son, Alastair in 1946. Besides photography in China, she was also known for a large body of image work in Malaysia and Australia (where she died in 1991). Her husband, generously donated her life's work, divided between Harvard University and Australia's Power House Museum of Science & Design.
This image was found on Harvard University's VIA (Visual Information Access) Search Engine under Record Identifier: olvwork80226
According to the notes from the collection:
"Album containing 193 black and white photographs of the "Lost Tribe," descendents of 17th century Chinese rebels living in the Xiang Hills, ca. 160 kilometers west of Beijing in Hebei Sheng. Subjects include landscape views, portraits, monasteries, villages, sculpture, coiffures, jewelry, embroidery, religious traditions, and incense-making."
And for those that haven't yet noticed, there is a second woman, standing outside looking in through the window.
House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison [RESTORED]
Entitled: House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] H Morrison [RESTORED] The original image was a very low resolution (551X600 970kb JPG) that I doubled the size of. This of course created a lot of artifacts which I then did spot removal on. I smoothed and evened the woman's skin. The area behind the stove was a horror of empty shadow that I repaired and reconstructed with either enhanced or manufactured detail. I added a light layer of random noise, to give it a "grainy" feeling like that of old film, but to also blend some of the jaggedness that remained from the size doubling. A sepia was added, then a faux duotone (blue shadow, yellow highlight, with extra yellow in the beams of sunlight and glow from the stove).
Hedda Morrison was a tremendous resource for images from the latter part of the Republican China years, photographing extensively with a 2 1/4 Rolleiflex Twin Lens (my personal roll film favorite) during her 13 year stay in China (from 1933 - 1946). Coincidentally, she then married into the family of and bears the name of another very famous China photographer; she married George Ernest Morrison's son, Alastair in 1946. Besides photography in China, she was also known for a large body of image work in Malaysia and Australia (where she died in 1991). Her husband, generously donated her life's work, divided between Harvard University and Australia's Power House Museum of Science & Design.
This image was found on Harvard University's VIA (Visual Information Access) Search Engine under Record Identifier: olvwork80226
According to the notes from the collection:
"Album containing 193 black and white photographs of the "Lost Tribe," descendents of 17th century Chinese rebels living in the Xiang Hills, ca. 160 kilometers west of Beijing in Hebei Sheng. Subjects include landscape views, portraits, monasteries, villages, sculpture, coiffures, jewelry, embroidery, religious traditions, and incense-making."
And for those that haven't yet noticed, there is a second woman, standing outside looking in through the window.