The beauty of the most exquisite! The photographer used traditional craftsmanship to take pictures of the actors of "Little Women"

Good news! Good news! The film Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, is finally set for Tanabata Valentine's Day.

Little Women poster

This creative adaptation breaks the world of Little Women and gives greater meaning to women's stories.

—The New York Times

It's a classic of modern wisdom, and sometimes heartbreak can burst into laughter.

- USA Today

Stills from Little Women

Little Women tells the story of the growth and love of four sisters living in Massachusetts in the 1800s. The film not only presents the characters of that era as much as possible from the costumes, but also invites the famous cinematographer Wilson Webb to shoot old-fashioned portraits of the actors.

Photographer Wilson Webb

Wilson Webb teamed up with Jess Gonchor, the art director for the film Little Women, to place the appropriate background for each character and photograph the actors using a wet-release process.

Photographer Wilson Webb is making a wet version

The tan photos below are made by Wilson Webb using the fire cotton glue process, which is a photographic technique invented in 1851, also known as the wet plate process.

Silsa Ronan plays Joe in the film

Timothy Chalame as Theodore Laurie Laurence

Because the venue is near the set of the film, actors can come in costumes between filming. He said on social platforms: "Actors have to sit still. Not because of the long exposure time, but because the depth of field of the photo is less than 1 inch deep. It takes 10 to 20 seconds to set the wet plate to be exposed, so if someone moves slightly, the photo will not be in focus. ”

The actors took turns shooting

Part of the production process

Making an 8 x 10 inch wet plate photo takes a lot of time and effort. Wilson Webb takes about 10 minutes to prepare the developer panels, 30 minutes to wash the exposed developer plates, dry them and seal them.

In the end, Wilson Webb's efforts paid off. His wet-version photographs are real and beautiful, as if traveling through time and space, leading the audience back to the era in which the story is told.

Emma Watson as Meg

Florence Poe as Amy March (left)

Eliza Scanlon as Beth Marc (right)

Laura Dunn as Marmee March (left)

Jayne Houdyshell as Hannah (right)

Bob Odenkirk as Mr. March (left)

James Norton as John Brooke (right)

Tom Kemp as Asa Melvin (left)

Louis Garrell as Friedrich Bhaer (right)

This Tanabata, go to the cinema with your loved one

Enjoy this extremely beautiful "Little Women"

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