Tag: childhood

Les enfants Gain (1900s-1910s)

Gustave Gain ~ Pierre et André Gain enfants: la lecture, 1911-20. Plaque de verre autochrome. | Archives de la Manche
Gustave Gain ~ Pierre et André Gain enfants: la lecture, 1911-20. Plaque de verre autochrome. | Archives de la Manche
Gustave Gain ~ Pierre Gain enfant, en costume de Pierrot, devant des marionnettes, 1909. Plaque de verre autochrome.
Gustave Gain ~ Pierre Gain enfant, en costume de Pierrot, devant des marionnettes, 1909. Plaque de verre autochrome.
Gustave Gain ~ Pierre Gain enfant, en costume de Pierrot, devant des marionnettes, 1909. Plaque de verre autochrome.
Gustave Gain ~ Pierre Gain enfant, en costume de Pierrot, devant des marionnettes, 1909. Plaque de verre autochrome.

source of all images in this post : Archives de la Manche ~ Maison de l’histoire de La Manche

Learning to fly · Kids at War

A ‘taube’ is spotted; a French 75 is immediately put into battery while ‘Pépéte’, the aviator, prepares to give chase. Paris, 19 September 1915.
A ‘taube’ is spotted; a French 75 is immediately put into battery while ‘Pépéte’, the aviator, prepares to give chase. Paris, 19 September 1915.
The aviator ‘Pépéte’ has just shot down a ‘taube’ with his machine gun. Paris, 19 September 1915.
Léon Gimpel  (1873-1948) :: The aviator ‘Pépéte’ has just shot down a ‘taube’ with his machine gun. Paris, 19 September 1915.
Léon Gimpel :: Boy playing in model airplane attached to a lamppost. France, 1915. Autochrome. | src Aktuallne Magazin
Léon Gimpel  (1873-1948) :: Boy playing in model airplane attached to a lamppost. France, 1915. Autochrome. | src SFP
L’aviateir «Pépete» vient d’abattre un «Taube» à coups de mitralleuse. Paris, 19 septembre 1915.

In 1915 Gimpel befriended a group of children from the Grenata Street neighborhood in Paris who had established their own “army”. He began to visit them regularly on Sundays, helping them to build their arsenal from whatever was to hand, providing direction in “casting”, and recording with his camera the army’s triumphs over the evil enemy, the Boche.
 
Gimpel was charmed by these children and came to know each of them well: the “chief”, the eldest in the garrison; his friend, who was conscripted to play the unenviable role of the Boche; and Pépète, who was “small, slightly misshaped, rather scrofulous, looking somewhat like a gnome” but who nonetheless played the part of an ace aviator. At the end of each session, Gimpel would reward the troops with barley sugar, causing all to shout with one voice, “Long live the photograph!”

quoted from Luminous-Lint online exhibition : Autochromes and Autochromists of WWI

Léon Gimpel (1873-1948) The famous aviator ‘Pépéte’ triumphs in front of his victim. Paris, 19 September 1915. Autochrome | src SFP
Léon Gimpel (1873-1948) · The famous aviator ‘Pépéte’ triumphs in front of his victim. Paris, 19 September 1915. Autochrome | src SFP

From : La guerre de gosses, Léon GIMPEL, Paris, 1915

More images at Images en ligne de la Société française de photographie (SFP)

Russian Autochromes ca. 1910

Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. From Primrose: Early Russian Colour Photography at the Photographers' Gallery. | src The Guardian
Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. From Primrose: Early Russian Colour Photography at the Photographers’ Gallery. | src The Guardian
Piotr I. Vedenisov (Russian, 1866-1937) :: Uknown woman, Crimea, Yalta, ca. 1914. Autochrome. | src NKFU
Piotr I. Vedenisov (Russian, 1866-1937) :: Uknown woman, Crimea, Yalta, ca. 1914. Autochrome. | src NKFU
Piotr Ivanovich Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Vera Nikolaevna Vedenisova in oriental folk dress, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src FOAM and NFKU
Piotr Ivanovich Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Vera Nikolaevna Vedenisova in oriental folk dress, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src FOAM and NKFU
Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src NFKU
Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Portrait of unknown woman wearing a Kokoshnik, 1909-1914. Autochrome. | src NKFU
Piotr I. Vedenisov (1866-1937) :: Tania and Liza Kozakova in traditional dresses, 1909-1914. Autochrome. From Primrose: Early Russian Colour Photography at the Photographers’ Gallery. | src The Guardian

Child with a pumpkin, 1927

Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927.
Jan Marian Włodek z dynią / Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin, 1927. Detail from an Autochrome by Jan Zdzisław Włodek.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek with a pumpkin at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927.
Jan Zdzisław Włodek :: Jan Marian Włodek at the age of approx. 3 years old, standing in a wicker armchair in the garden of the Włodków villa, Kraków, 1927. | src Archive of the Włodek Family

Warburg by Warburg, ca. 1910

John Cimon Warburg :: Wild Flowers, ca. 1910. Autochrome. Photograph of Joan, the photographer's daughter, shown three-quarter length, standing in front of red wall paper. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Wild Flowers, ca. 1910. Autochrome. Photograph of Joan, the photographer’s daughter, shown three-quarter length, standing in front of red wall paper. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Marsh Marigolds, ca. 1910. Autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Marsh Marigolds, ca. 1910. Autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘The Sunny Doorway’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: 'Peggy by the Orange Tree', Autochrome, 1909. Photograph of a full length portrait of Warburg's daughter Peggy standing beside an orange tree. She wears a white dress and holds a white hat in her hand. She holds onto the orange tree with her other hand. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Peggy by the Orange Tree’, Autochrome, 1909. Photograph of a full length portrait of Warburg’s daughter Peggy standing beside an orange tree. She wears a white dress and holds a white hat in her hand. She holds onto the orange tree with her other hand. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Joan in Red Riding Hood Cape with Basket’, autochrome, 6 November 1907. | src V&A Museum
Photograph of a near full length potrait of Warburg’s daughter Joan dressed in a Red Riding Hood cape. She stands beside a bush of white daisies. Warburg has annotated the plate with details regarding how the photograph was made.