One-Hundred Years of Color

The month of June marks the 100th Anniversary of Colour Film being widely available in the form of specialised plated designed by the Lumiere brothers in Lyons, France. In the shadow of many unsuccessful attempts to accomplish colour in common hands, the Lumiere product, called Autochrome plates, were turned out of their factories in numbers barely ducking below six-thousand a day. This exhibition features a selection of these fragile images on glass. Included are examples that show how Autochromes were used to document the world — capturing images of exotic cultures and places and scientific specimens. There are color images depicting family life and leisure among both high society and the middle class. Other Autochromes show how creative photographers approached the advent of natural color — producing works of art that were never before possible.Happy 100th in Colour Film.!