Fuck Yeah Autochrome

Autochrome by Alfred Van Besten.  "Ma Femme" (1913).

Andree, daughter of Auguste Lumiere, 1909

Autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten. Stagecoaches at Gent c. 1912.

Autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten. 1912.

ca. 1910.

Autochrome by Auguste Lumiere. Painter in Garden with His Work, ca 1910.

Juliette, daughter of the photographer Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, 1910. Autochrome (1/2 plate, glass mount). Dimensions:  7 x 5 in. (178 x 127 mm)

"Fixing the Peugeot somewhere in France, an autochrome from 1907, the year the Autochrome Lumière--an early colour photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers--was first marketed. It was the principal colour photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s."

Autochrome by Paul Castelneau (French Army). Hirtzbach, 16 june, 1916.

Ireland, 1913.

French soldier, 1910

George Eastman House Collection

Title: Family group outdoors Date: ca. 1915 Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process Dimensions: Image: 9.1 x 10 cm Overall: 10.2 x 12.7 cm George Eastman House Collection

Iris and Janet sit in the garden of their family home, Bury Knowle, in Headington, Oxford. Laing, a gifted amateur photographer and artist, photographed her daughters many times in and around their home. The autochrome process (patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903) continued to be the most popular colour photographic process until the early 1930s