Autochrome photography

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

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…

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)"

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

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Color photography was attempted beginning in the 1840s. But widely known with the Autochrome Lumière, an early color photography process tha...

Although I am obsessed with fairy tales, and though I love the fashion and romance of the medieval era, especially as seen through the lens of the 19th and early 20th century artists, if I had to hop into a time machine and go back to any era, it would be the Edwardian era.

Autochrome 1910