A new book presents hundreds of autochrome color photographs of The Great War, many of them in print for the first time. There were several million black-and-white photographs taken of the World War I ...

Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of the world as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago. This image of a young ...

August and Louis Lumière were pioneers in photography. Legend has it that in 1895, when they premiered their first motion picture film of a train entering a station, audiences fled in terror, fearing ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

In 1902 two successful French inventors bought a stretch of lakeside real estate in Burlington's South End. Fast forward: A local historian is determined to tell the full story of how the city's ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in black-and-white. But there were a handful of photographers working during the war in color, using an early ...

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). "Woman in black and white striped skirt seated in chair." 1979 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist Laura Gilpin (1891- 1979). "Basket of peaches," c.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Auguste and Louis Lumiere patented a color photography process called Autochrome Lumiere in 1903 (they ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...

There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers -- pioneers of motion pictures -- showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière never imagined in the early 1900s, when they were trying to solve a problem that had bedeviled the photographers of the black-and-white era for more than 70 years, that ...