Originally published at: Stunning autochrome color photos from 1903 | Boing Boing
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Needs more magenta.
It doen’t really capture the colors of a precolorized world,
Because people had to stand still for 5 to 15 minutes or so, depending on the light.
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The Lumiere’s brought their technology to Burlington, Vermont and set up a factory here to produce autochrome images in this country. For a while, Burlington was sort of the capital of color photography in the US. A couple of years ago, the old Lumiere building was purchased and made the new home of Burlington Beer Company, a very successful VT microbrewery. They have some of the autochromes up on the wall and had a nice beer-pairing dinner there with a speaker on the history a while ago.
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Obligatory Technology Connections:
And if you want to know more, try to track down a BBC series (and book) called ‘The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn’ about a French banker who invested his fortune in recording much of the world using teams of photographers and Autochrome.
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That’s where the photos in the PetaPixel link are from. With link to the museum that has all the photos.
The documentary about Kahn’s project also aired on Arte and may be in their archives, I haven’t checked.
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For another color film pioneer, check out Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.
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It is easy to spot Autochrome pictures; just look at the hands! 
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