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Autochrome Lumière, The World's Earliest Color Film
Way before Kodachrome, and the now-classic Paul Simon song, there was Autochrome Lumière.
Autochrome Lumière is a photographic process that revolutionized color photography in the early 20th century. It was invented by French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, who were already famous for their contributions to the film industry.
Before Autochrome Lumière, color photography was a difficult and…
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"The Terminal" by Alfred Stieglitz - 1892
"Winter, Fifth Avenue" by Alfred Stieglitz - 1892
"The Steerage" by Alfred Stieglitz - 1907
Alfred Stieglitz, (born January 1, 1864 - died July 13, 1946), art dealer, publisher, advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts, and, arguably, the most important photographer of his time.
Early in 1902 Stieglitz announced the existence of a new organization called the Photo-Secession, designed to break away from stodgy and conventional ideas. Photo-Secession was dedicated to promoting photography as an art form.
Autochrome self-portrait, c. 1907
The Above photo is NOT colorized, Stieglitz was a pioneer in the use of the autochrome process, invented in France by Auguste and Louis Lumière. It was the first practicable method of color photography.
This photo of his daughter is believed to be one of the first color photographs - "Kitty Stieglitz in a Field with Blue Flowers," - 1907
Alfred and Kitty Stieglitz, 1907
This Autochrome was made in the Bavarian resort town of Tutzing, Austria, in the summer of 1907, by either Stieglitz or his young protégé Edward Steichen, or possibly both. Stieglitz was experimenting with the newly invented Autochrome, the first viable and commercially manufactured color process.
Late in 1905, with the encouragement of Steichen, Stieglitz opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, a name soon shortened to 291, the gallery’s address on lower Fifth Avenue in New York City. During the gallery’s first four years it most often functioned as an exhibition space for the Photo-Secession photographers. By the 1909 season, however, the gallery began to promote progressive art in a variety of media, and the work of painters, sculptors. These exhibitions included the first shows in the United States of the work of Henri Matisse, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Cézanne, and Pablo Picasso. It's also the place where he met his future wife Georgia O'keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe, "Hands" by Alfred Stieglitz - 1918
Stieglitz & Georgia O'keeffe, 1919
His serial portrait of O’Keeffe, made over a period of 20 years, contains more than 300 individual pictures and remains unique and compelling in its ability to capture many facets of a single subject.
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other, and 1946, when Stieglitz died, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) that describe their daily lives in profoundly rich detail.
How much we have in common. — Traits. — Both turn everything we touch into something really living — & amusing — for ourselves. — Both can laugh — really laugh — even at our heartaches… 300 years you want to live!! — I wish I could give you that as a gift —
Letter from Stieglitz to O’Keeffe, November 9th, 1916
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The original Moulin Rouge in Autochrome Lumière color, before the fire of February 27, 1915 that destroyed it. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1925 where it still operates at the foot of Montmarte hill in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement
Near the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, during the Belle Époque, many artists lived, worked, or had studios in or around Montmartre, including Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh.
Montmartre, which, at the heart of an increasingly vast and impersonal Paris, retained a bohemian village atmosphere; festivities and artists mixed with pleasure and beauty as their values.
The Moulin Rouge still stands as one of the few remaining artifacts connected with the original Bohemian Movement that began in Paris in the middle of the 19th Century.
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Belgium on the left, Senegal on the right.
Welcome to the Half-Finals!
Today's uniforms are drastically opposed in colour, with Belgium's very dark blue (appearing black on pictures) and the Senegalese tirailleurs in red, blue and yellow accents.
Interestingly, this bracket shows the two processes used to get colour photography in the early 1900s. The one on the left, depicting the Belgian soldier, is the cheapest one; the photograph was first taken in black and white and then re-coloured by hand using various media like watercolours or crayons. The one on the right, brand new at the time of the First World War, is a Lumière-patented process called "autochrome" which allows the picture to be taken directly in colour.
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