Research- hand colouring/ painting

hand colouring has been around for as long as photography, it dates back to as early as the first daguerreotypes. people took to photography for its finally captured just what they looked like. however people were disappointed with there fine silks plained into simple black and white. here is where there old faithful portrait painters came in to give the images a splash of colour.
"Gone were those idealized portraits they were used to seeing from their portrait painters – the ones that put softness to their hair, a twinkle in their baby blue eyes and a romantic flush to their cheeks. While first dismayed at this apparent new intrusion onto their business of portraiture, it didn’t take long for the shrewdest of portrait artists to figure out how they could still make money - by working alongside portrait photographers, and offering a new service: applying their colorful oils to these prints. The art of hand coloring photographs was born!"

In the 1950 the age of colour film to the public, put and dramtic stop to the producion of hand painted photographs, why have painted images when the cameras now can produce the subjects colours to a good stranded.  "Increased interest in hand-coloured photographs. Since about 1970 there has been something of a revival of hand-colouring, as seen in the work of such artist-photographers as Elizabeth Lennard, Jan Saudek, Kathy Vargas, and Rita Dibert.Robert Rauschenberg's and others' use of combined photographic and painting media in their art represents a precursor to this revival."
In my opinion hand painting images is still a great way of adding colour, i hope that people will still at least experiment with this process, as you can create style and effects you cannot do in photoshop and other programs. i feel the main reason that hand colouring had very much died out is not because of the developments of coloured photographs, but the time needed to produce these well detailed images, to a high quality.