Southwest Classics photos, original photographs by Taos photographer Gail Russell

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" Original oil colors on photography "

She Told Me Everything

Navajo Rugs

Georgia's Lunch Counter

Golden Pony

It Was Just One Of Those Days

JFK Was Here

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The Hand colored photograph is almost as old as photography itself.. hand colorists practiced their art throughout China, Japan, India as well as the Western World as early as the 1850’s. Russell’s oil colors on sepia toned images are done with a uniqueness that has become a trademark.

For the Southwestern Classics part of my work, the original photographs are black and white, the subject matter is often of places along the Old Route # 66 as it meandered through the Southwest, as well as classic plant life and western memorabilia.