"Autochrome "portrait Of A Man With Forget-me-nots" Circa 1920"
Very beautiful autochrome Portrait of a seated man in a suit holding a small bouquet of forget-me-nots in his hands Format 9x 12 cm circa 1920 "This is not a snapshot, but the reproduction of a frozen and composed moment, illuminated by an impression, a sensation of color generated by multiple touches of pigments modeled by the brush of light" Institut Lumière Filed as a patent in 1903 but unveiled at the Academy of Sciences in 1904, the Autochrome Lumière plate, invented by Louis Lumière, is the first color photography process. The secret of this invention lies in the use of tinted potato starch, allowing the light to be captured and filtered.
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