Before Kodachrome
Posted by zyrcster in Across The Commons
The Commons Galleries: Early colour photographic processes in The Commons on Flickr – featuring Lú_’s curation
| Applied colour, Southworth & Hawes, ca. 1850 … with additional colour provided by the effect of time on metal. |

George Eastman House |
Photochrom prints, also called Aäc, are ink-based images produced though “the direct photographic transfer of an original negative onto litho and chromographic printing plates.” – Library of Congress
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![[A girl of Voss, Hardanger Fjord, Norway] (LOC)](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/3175015912_51d291bab2_m.jpg)
Library Of Congress |
Autochrome, ca. 1910
Autochrome is an additive color ’screen-plate’ process: the medium contains a glass plate, overlaying random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch, with lampblack filling the space between grains, and an impermeable black-and-white, panchromatic silver halide emulsion. – Wikipedia
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George Eastman House |
Glass Paget plate phototransparency, Frank Hurley, 1915
The system used two glass plates, one of which was the colour screen plate while the other was a standard black-and-white negative plate. The colour screen plate comprised a series of red, green and blue filters, laid down in a regular pattern of lines to form a réseau, or matrix. – Wikipedia
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State Library of New South Wales |
Tags: Brooklyn Museum, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, State Library of New South Wales
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