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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A term applied to the Lumière process of color photography (which see).

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  1. n. An early photograph produced by means of a glass plate coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic dyed grains of potato starch under silver halide emulsion.

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  • “The process was called the autochrome, and it was a complicated process using, of all things ... potatoes.”

    Beautiful autochromes

  • “The autochrome process, the first successful method for producing color photos, produced Impressionist-like images with delicate colors.”

    The Wall Street Journal: From Distant Times and Climes

  • “In all, the softened autochrome colors enhance the notion of distant places and times.”

    The Wall Street Journal: From Distant Times and Climes

  • “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

  • “Seen here is a stereo autochrome, c. 1912, by Paul Sano.”

    Boing Boing

  • “Steichen introduced color photography to the United States in 1907; the autochrome technique he used was developed by the Lumi? re brothers in Paris.”

    Newsweek: Pushing The Limits

  • “The richness of the colours can be extreme as you see from the colour photographs (Lumiere autochrome plates) which are here projected.”

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture

  • “All the illustrations, both autochrome and monochrome, are the work of Mr. Coburn.”

    Mark Twain

  • “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

  • “Victor Gray, co-ordinator of Exbury's forthcoming autochrome exhibition said: 'It's hard to explain the quality of the colour, and imagine the astonishment when autochromes were first displayed.”

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  • chained_bear 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. Oct 8, 2007

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