I dont know of theres a guarenteed way to know if its a ‘real photo’ but it checks some boxes for one. I’m not a photography nerd just making some assumptions. If you zoom into the picture you’ll see actual photograph grain which is visually distinct from typical digital photo lossy artefacting which implies this is a scan of a real picture.
They did have color photography back then but it wasn’t true rgb color, the color film crystals were only capable of like green and blues so not great and tended to be washed out. His blue uniform and brown handbag look suspicously vibrant. I think this is likely digitally recolored.
Your telling me someone was lugging around a hugeass pinhole camera, in the snow, in Chicago, to take a random picture of a mailman? And the snow only falls on his hat and left shoulder, but not the boxes?
I dont know of theres a guarenteed way to know if its a ‘real photo’ but it checks some boxes for one. I’m not a photography nerd just making some assumptions. If you zoom into the picture you’ll see actual photograph grain which is visually distinct from typical digital photo lossy artefacting which implies this is a scan of a real picture.
They did have color photography back then but it wasn’t true rgb color, the color film crystals were only capable of like green and blues so not great and tended to be washed out. His blue uniform and brown handbag look suspicously vibrant. I think this is likely digitally recolored.
Your telling me someone was lugging around a hugeass pinhole camera, in the snow, in Chicago, to take a random picture of a mailman? And the snow only falls on his hat and left shoulder, but not the boxes?