Autochrome Lumière
The first commercially successful color photography process, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and sold from 1907. Its glass plates have a soft, grainy, painterly look unlike any later film.
Spot it
- 01Speckled pointillist grain
- 02Soft pastel color
- 03Dreamy muted contrast
Why it happens
A glass plate is coated with microscopic dyed potato-starch grains acting as red, green and blue filters, then a panchromatic emulsion records the light passing through them.
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