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The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography | 
 enlarge | Creators: Merry A. Foresta, John Wood
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Category: Book
List Price: $69.95
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Sales Rank: 1110370
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 202
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 1
ISBN: 0877454132
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.65
EAN: 9780877454137
ASIN: 0877454132
Publication Date: August 1, 1993
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Condition: Both book and jacket clean, bright and sound, no flaws.185 pp.
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Those who have no sense of photographic history--and think of color photography as having its origins in the 1930s or '40s--may be stunned into silence by this homage to the invention that revolutionized the art form at the turn of the century. John Wood presents a selection of the finest surviving examples of the autochrome process here, including the work of still life masters Heinrich Kuhn and Wladimir Schohin, the painterly Antonin Personnaz, and the now-forgotten Gervais Courtellemont, whose work was widely published in National Geographic in the '20s. Wood also showcases the efforts of pre-Revolutionary Russian writer Leonid Andreyev and American studio portraitist J. B. Whitcomb, whose autochromes were not discovered until the '70s and '80s; the find of Andreyev's autochromes (by archivist Richard Davies) is trumpeted by the author as "one of the most important photographic discoveries ever made."
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