The Autochrome: Lumière’s Miracle Plate (1907)

Dyed potato starch, a black-and-white plate, and the first commercially successful colour photograph. How the Lumière brothers’ autochrome worked — explained by curators, chemists, and the people who still coat plates by hand.

Playlist by @color_plate_birth

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The Autochrome; Color photos? Just add potatoes. — Technology Connections
2. How Potatoes Gave Us Colored Photos — Smithsonian Channel
3. What is an autochrome? | Colour Photography Processes | V&A — Victoria and Albert Museum
4. How the Autochrome process works — Jim Janossy Sr.
5. Making an Autochrome Screen Plate — Jon Hilty
6. The AutoChrome - Thanks, Lumiere Brothers! — photoinduced
7. 09 - Peter Norman - "The Autochrome Project, A Work In Progress" — Virtual Stereoscopic Community
8. Autochrome — Monica Stewart
9. Inventing Color in a World That was Black and White — Today I Found Out
10. First Color Pictures - Paris 1910 Les Frères Lumiere, Autochrome vs Instagram — Mr Ju
11. Autochrome Lumiere (fragment 2) — auxdocks
12. Autochrome Lumiere — Insectula