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Early Color Photography #
June 30th, 2008 | In Worth Seeing
Like Mr. Kottke, I’m fascinated by color photos from an era usually seen in black-and-white. After explaining autochrome, he offers these links:
Here’s a slideshow of some photos taken by this process. Here’s some autochromes of Mark Twain from 1908.
More early color photography (not necessarily autochromes): Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii’s stunning photographs of Russia circa 1909-1915, photos of WWI, photos of WWII, and photos of America in the late 30s/early 40s (color corrected).