For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the distant past was in color, too. Remind yourself with this delicious set of Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the distant past was in color, too. Remind yourself ...

A new book presents hundreds of autochrome color photographs of The Great War, many of them in print for the first time. There were several million black-and-white photographs taken of the World War I ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

There are dozens of now-obscure graphic processes, so-called dead media, cherished by coteries of collectors and scholars. And then there is Autochrome, the early color photography system developed by ...

A Colorado luminary, photographer Fred Payne Clatworthy’s mastery of the autochrome process brought Colorado’s beauty to audiences throughout the United States in the early 1900s. Clatworthy was the ...

In 1907, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière developed the first commercially viable form of color photography. Their process, called autochrome, used glass plates coated with millions of microscopic ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Today we are familiar with the color pixels of our television or computer monitors, but a century ago autochrome plates struck a visual parallel with the Pointillist painting technique of Georges ...