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Posted By: Hankron

With the Newton photograph, the magenta (pinkish/purplish) tone indicates that it is later generation .... Many color fashion photos were made from color transparencies. Transparencies are just like negatives except the image is positive. When you hold a thin plastic transparency up to the light, the image looks normal. With age, many transparencies take on a distinct and often heavy magenta tone (A vaction slide is a transparecy held in a cardboard frame). So, the magenta tone in the above image strongly suggests that the photograph was made from an old transparency (one that had turned magenta with age)-- thus it was made years after the original shot.