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The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography Hardback - 1993

by John Wood (Editor); Foreword by Merry A. Foresta

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Discusses the history of the first practical color photographic process, shows examples, and explains the process.

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  • Title The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography
  • Author John Wood (Editor); Foreword by Merry A. Foresta
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City
  • Publication date 1993
  • ISBN 9780877454137 / 0877454132
  • Weight 2.42 lbs (1.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.29 x 8.91 x 1.02 in (28.68 x 22.63 x 2.59 cm)
  • Category Photography
  • Library of Congress subjects Color photography - Autochrome process
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92038758
  • Dewey Decimal Code 778.65

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  • Publishers Weekly, 06/21/1993, Page 0
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University of Iowa Press,, 1993. hardcover. fine. Photo-historian Wood ( The Daguerreotype ) here resonantly portrays a "more gracious naive" era in the art and craft of photography by focusing on turn-of-the-century photographers like Stieglitz, Steichen, Clarence White and Heinrich Kuhn, who employed autochrome, a particularly luminous starch-dye and glass-plate photographic color process. First presented in Paris in 1904 by the Lumiere brothers, autochrome has a nuance and fragility that seems to impose its own aesthetic on practitioners. In one example of the 75 included, Karl Struss's 1910 work, Boardwalk, L.I. , has a charm that eludes today's more glaring standards, in part, perhaps, because the muted softness inherent in the process mitigates the bright sunlight indicated by the numerous raised parasols. Wood's smart text also explains how the Photo-Secessionists, in their artistic and literary ferment, later rejected autochrome. Factual and evocative "Notes on the… Read more
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