deMilked - Before 1907, if you wanted a color photograph then you (well, a professional colorist) basically had to color it in using different dyes and pigments, but two French brothers called Auguste and Louis Lumière changed all that with a game-changing process that they called the Autochrome Lumière. Using dyed grains of potato starch and light-sensitive emulsion, they were able to produce vibrant photographs without the need for additional colorization. Despite being difficult to manufacture and also somewhat expensive, the process was very popular among amateur photographers and one of the world’s first books of color photography was published using the Autochrome Lumière technique.
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Sergej Mikhajlovich Prokudin-Gorski documented Russia with his patented process using color-separated glass plates. He was one of the very few who was allowed to see the Lumiere process before it was rolled out.
You can find Prokudin-Gorski's surviving photos at the Library of Congress online.
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