10 Of the Oldest Color Photographs Depicting the World in Autochrome A Century Ago

4 Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1914

Kodak soon took things to an entirely new level with the introduction of their Kodachrome film in 1935. This turned out a lighter and convenient alternative to the Autochrome Lumiere process. This made Autochrome Lumiere obsolete even though it remained popular in France till 1950.

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5 Sisters Sitting In a Garden Tying Roses Together, 1911

Kodachrome too did not last long in the evolution of color photography ultimately giving way to digital photography. Kodachrome was stopped by Kodak in 2009. Digital photography is by far the most popular way to take photographs.

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6 Daydreams, 1909

Regardless of digital photography or kodachrome, the evolution and progress of color photography would not have been possible had it not been for the invention of the two brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere hailed as the pioneers of color photography.

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7 Musing in the Park 1909-1914

The largest collection of Autochrome photographs was documented between 1909 and 1931 and numbered 72,000 photgraphs. The collection was created by banker Albert Kahn and is housed in the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris.

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