An early color photographic process developed in 1907 that used a special glass plate with colored starch grains to capture color images directly.
From auto- (self) + chrome (color, from Greek chroma). Named because the process automatically created color without needing separate color filters or multiple exposures.
The Autochrome process was revolutionary—people could finally see the world in color in photographs, not just paintings, and thousands of beautiful images from 1910-1930 still survive!
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