Postdoc: RUIVO Céline (UCL) | Supervisor: MARION Philippe (UCL) | Co-supervisor: FEVRY Sébastien (UCL)
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the photographic medium and printing techniques were associated with lantern projections. They converted the projected performances into a much more realistic and pragmatic approach to what was seen on screen. Indeed, there was a switch from hand painted Phantasmagoria to a concept of 'natural colours' during lantern projections.
This research would like to explore what such an angle of reflection can bring to the study of the artefacts (glass slides and lanterns). But also: how did colours contribute to either fictions, educational representations, documentation of archaeology or heritage, travels and explorations of new lands, or artistic views ? How does colour participate in forms and serial narratives? Add to this the way in which colours still make use of 'illusion of reality' (couleurs trompeuses) by using a commercial concept of 'natural colours'. The different projection performances through devices and elaborated systems (motion of the glass slides, additive devices, or superimpositions) contributed to create coloured representations as well, but how can they be recreated in contemporary projections?
Finally, can we speak of a legacy of colour between the projections of lantern slides and the cinema through the conversion of the colourist workshops that already existed for the glass slides, the different colour system or the constitution of genres (melodrama, documentary, education)?
