LUMIERE - LINKS
A French article (in English) illustrated with some beautiful images, but which is especially interesting for discussing the financial cost of taking early colour photographs.
Colour Photography: From Autochrome to Cibachrome - Abstracts from a Courtauld Institute seminar summarizing a 2007 series of talks to mark the centenary of colour photography.
A 1908 instruction booklet describing the process of Lumière autochromes.
A Belgian article on autochromes which features some remarkable images in the collection of Florent van Hoof.
Captured in Colour - an Australian article on early colour photographs taken during World War I.
“100 Years of Colour Photography” - a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated series of articles also written by the National Media Museum in the UK.
An brief introductory article about autochromes by Mark Antman of The Image Works written at the time of the centenary of colour photography in 2007.
An excellent article about autochromes as the dawn of colour photography, written National Media Museum in the UK at the time of their exhibition “Dawn of Colour”
In French, this article from the Institut Lumière in Lyon (their former home) provides a summary of autochromes, will beautiful illustrations of autochrome images in the collection of the Lumière Institute.
An exquisite calendar published by Ilford in 2003 featuring many photographs of the Lumières and their family.
A group family portrait of the Lumières with identifications of the family members.
The Lumière Institut in Lyon website (most information in French, some in English)
