Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A term applied to the Lumière process of color photography (which see).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An early
photograph produced by means of aglass plate coated on one side with a randommosaic of microscopicdyed grains ofpotato starch undersilver halide emulsion .
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Examples
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The process was called the autochrome, and it was a complicated process using, of all things ... potatoes.
Beautiful autochromes The Nag 2009
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The autochrome process, the first successful method for producing color photos, produced Impressionist-like images with delicate colors.
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The 1910 autochrome of medieval cosplayers, cropped above, and the monkey-on-a-rhino gelatin print below are in a set of early 20th century photographs from The George Eastman House, which has joined the flickr commons.
Boing Boing 2008
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Seen here is a stereo autochrome, c. 1912, by Paul Sano.
Boing Boing 2008
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In all, the softened autochrome colors enhance the notion of distant places and times.
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Steichen introduced color photography to the United States in 1907; the autochrome technique he used was developed by the Lumi? re brothers in Paris.
Pushing The Limits 2007
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The richness of the colours can be extreme as you see from the colour photographs (Lumiere autochrome plates) which are here projected.
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All the illustrations, both autochrome and monochrome, are the work of Mr. Coburn.
Mark Twain Archibald Henderson 1920
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All the illustrations, both autochrome and monochrome, are the work of Mr. Coburn.
Mark Twain Henderson, Archibald 1910
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A recent exhibition of priceless autochrome colour photographs nearly 100 years old drew more than 100,000 visitors -- a record for the Albert Kahn museum in Paris -- captivating visitors with everyday scenes and palace life in a country whose native rulers behaved like God.
Medindia Health News 2010
chained_bear commented on the word autochrome
With a capital A, a reliable process for making color pictures developed by Louis Lumière between 1903 and 1907. In the Autochrome process, a glass plate was coated with grains of potato starch mixed with red, green, and blue dyes. A black-and-white negative was exposed through the coated glass plate, and the result was a color picture.
October 8, 2007