AA-2026-E48F4E
On the image
Someone in 1958 decided that a distant volcano deserved to be photographed in hot pink and magenta, which meant either loading infrared film into the camera or accepting that the color stock had shifted badly in storage. The mountain sits perfectly centered in the frame, as though it had agreed to pose, its slopes rendered in shades of fuchsia that no human eye would ever see. In the foreground, a body of water—a lake or lagoon—mirrors back the same hallucinogenic palette, and a few scattered structures or vegetation marks the settlement at its far shore.
This is the mark of amateur or experimental photography in the late 1950s, a period when color film was still novelty enough that a traveler might not immediately know whether the results represented what was actually there or what the emulsion had decided to show them. The photographer pointed at something notable—a mountain with real geological interest—and trusted the film to report the truth. The film lied beautifully.
Visually related — by likeness
Volcanic landscape with infrared or color-shifted film, 1958. 1958. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-E48F4E. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/volcanic-landscape-with-infrared-or-color-shifted-film-1958.
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