beepy Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/arts/design/21stei.html"> Interesting article</a> on some recently rediscovered Steichen autochromes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 It's OK to quote briefly from the article: "...At first glance the two pictures seem to be gorgeous anachronisms, full-color blasts from the black-and-white world of 1908, the year Ford introduced the Model T and Theodore Roosevelt was nearing the end of his second term. But they are genuine products of their time, rare ones, among the few surviving masterpieces from the earliest days of color photography, made using a process developed by the Lumière brothers in France and imported to the United States by the photographer Edward Steichen a century ago this year. They were taken by Steichen, probably in Buffalo, and are thought to be portraits of Charlotte Spaulding, a friend and student who became his luminous subject for the portraits, which resemble pointillist miniatures on glass..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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