Smoking Boy, 1938

Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd
based on an original negative nitrate by John Vachon
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• Collectible giclée fine art print;
• Hand-printed in England, with individual embossing;
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ABOUT THIS IMAGE

Taken July, 1938, Baltimore, United States
(Library of Congress)

"I originally did this piece way back in something like 2013 when I was just starting out, and another version of it appeared in my first book, The Paper Time Machine. In the years since the book was released, I've learned a great deal more about the process of colorization and so I've taken to slowly remastering my entire back catalogue. Vachon's evocative picture of this young boy smoking was originally a different proportion but decided to crop it square for a colorized print. I used genuine colour slides taken around the same period as reference in the contrasts and colour adjustments for version 3 of this brilliant photograph."

– Jordan J. Lloyd

This historical photograph has been meticulously researched and rendered into colour from a black and white original by a skilled artisan, continuing a craft tradition that has existed since photography began.