An early color photography process using a glass plate coated with colored starch grains, producing color images without separate color filters.
From Greek 'autos' (self) plus 'chroma' (color). The Lumière brothers patented the Autochrome plate in 1903, revolutionizing early color photography.
Autochrome plates captured some of the first true-color photographs of real life—soldiers, landscapes, people—giving us the visual world of 1900s-1930s. Before digital color, this was the closest thing to seeing the past in authentic color.
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