These eight autochromes are hauntingly beautiful. I thought I'd pass this on.
The original plates were made in 1913.
The Lady in Red.
--P
These eight autochromes are hauntingly beautiful. I thought I'd pass this on.
The original plates were made in 1913.
The Lady in Red.
--P
Preston-Columbia CA
"If you want nice fresh oats, you have to pay a fair price. If you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse; that comes a little cheaper."
What a cool process, and color brings these turn of the century people alive in my mind.
These get wheeled out from time to time and always cause a bit of a stir ... And rightly so, of course.
A friend of mine posted one on facebook, without further info, asking people to guess the date ... Almost all the answers were 1960s/70s/80s
The national Geographic Society has something like 11,000 Autochromes. A lot (maybe all) have been digitized. Here are the ones on Tumblr:
http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/tagged/autochrome
Apologies if this has been posted before.
John
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