Autochrome photography

French baguette in an autochrome of painter Henri-Ernest Rioux & his wife, Marseille, France by Karel Šmirous 1908

In 1903, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, patented the first widely available color photography process, called autochrome. Their method—which involves dusting a plate with dyed potato star…

Download Image of Balcony. Nancy, France, 1909-1911. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description. Dated: 1909 - 1911. Topics: julien gerardin, national school of art and design of nancy, early photography, color photography, france, autochromes, vintage photographs, autochromes by julien gerardin, high resolution

Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilising innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid autochromes. The tableaux of his autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first colour photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. Demure ladies and … Continue reading "Alfonse Van Besten’s Dreamy Autochromes (1910-1915)"

A collection of amazing color portrait photos of women from the early 20th century; these photographs were made on color photographic Autochrome plate technology.

The rise of photography in the mid-late 19th-century began the move away from an oral and literary tradition towards one based on image. A photograph can describe a moment in time more viscerally than the written word. Think of that picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. A million words have been written … Continue reading "The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn"

Edward J. Steichen, portrait of Alfred Stieglitz 1907 23.9 x 18 cm Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1955 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Autochrome Lumière is an early colour photography process. Patented in 1903 by Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907, it was the principal colour photography process in use before the advent of subtractive colour film in the mid-1930s. Autochrome is an additive colour “mosaic screen plate” process. The medium consists of a glass…

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