For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

A Colorado luminary, photographer Fred Payne Clatworthy’s mastery of the autochrome process brought Colorado’s beauty to audiences throughout the United States in the early 1900s. Clatworthy was the ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...

Traveling through Europe in 1907, the pioneering American photographer Alfred Stieglitz was introduced to color. The newly-invented Autochrome process was difficult to master, resulting in unique ...

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Ethelreda Laing's autochrome of her daughters is an example of early colour photography. The autochrome process used a random mosaic of coloured ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Described by photography historian John Wood as “the rarest, the most fragile and, to a great many eyes, the most ...