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The dreamlike dawn of color photography. Patented by the Lumière brothers, this process used dyed potato starch grains to create a soft, pointillist palette that transformed reality into a luminous, painterly vision.

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Contents

Examples of Autochromes
1Examples of Autochromes
Introduction
2Autochromes: Introduction
Invention and the process
3Autochromes: Invention
4Autochromes: Technique
Themes
5Autochromes: Portrait
6Autochromes: Landscapes
7Autochromes: Still life
8Autochromes: Scientific
9Autochromes: Erotica and nudes
10Autochromes: Art
11Autochromes: From around the world
12Autochromes: Stereo
Pictorialism
13Pictorialists and the Autochrome
Autochromes of the First World War (1914-1918)
14French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes)
15Autochromes: Autochromists of WWI
Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet
16Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931)
Photographers
17The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes
18Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War
19Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos
Women photographers using Autochromes
20Autochromes: Women photographers
Publications using Autochromes
21Autochromes: L'Illustration
22Autochromes: National Geographic
23Autochromes: Farbenphotographie
Amateur photographers using Autochromes
24Autochromes: Amateurs
Packaging
25Packaging for autochromes

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