Britain in Colo[u]r

[McClef]

Autochromes were more popular than might be thought due to people such as Albert Kahn http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2007/...r-albert-kahn/ .

Also Tsar Nicholas II sponsored autochrome photographs http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/en/expozice5.html#p-g .

Autochromes were also used by National Geographic magazine and other publications.

[Barry]

Absolutely marvellous photos of an England long past. Thanks for posting them.

BTW Autochromes were introduced by the Lumeiere brothers in France in 1907. The potato starch Autochromes used an RGB colour process, like our colour monitors today. The little coloured grains of starch were 4 million per square inch. Although long exposures were required the results were often very beautiful and delicate, as you see. Not apparent from the photos above is that the originals only transmit about 7% of the light falling on them. We are seeing them in a better light than did the originators!