A MINI-MOB OF MERRY MAIKO -- Real Photo vs. 3-Color Halftone

I am sure this photo has been posted elsewhere (?), and that most (some?) of the young Maiko have been identified, and their names give for all who love collecting images of the individual beauties.

The purpose of this post is "photographic" in nature, and meant to give you another look at the state of the printers art back in the 1920s.

The top image was scanned from an original, real-photo, gelatin silver-print, The bottom version was scanned from a 3-color lithograph (Red, Blue, Yellow) --- much cheaper to produce in vast quantities than the one-by-one real "darkroom photo" at the top.

Both of the crops are extracted from POSTCARDS.

Note that today, not only has modern lithography gotten beautifully exacting, but along the way, a 4th "color" was added to the screen process : BLACK.

In the above color litho, it is the solid Red on Blue that produces what appear to be the near Blacks of the image.

♥ Make your own one-on-one comparison of the old processes right HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/14945144525/sizes/o/

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Taken on: August 17, 2014

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