Title: Child and Nurse
Artist: Zoller, Charles C.
Medium: Color Palate, Screen (Autochrome) Process
Year: 1907-1932
Process Description:
Some 19th century photographers experimented with chemical formulations trying to produce color images by direct exposure. Others applied paint and powders to the surface of monochrome prints. Different experimentations led to several early color processes. Louis Lumière was the actual inventor of autochromes.
His process used a screen of tiny potato starch grains dyed orange-red, green and violet. Dusted onto a glass plate, the dyed grains were covered with a layer of sensitive panchromatic silver bromide emulsion. As light entered the camera, the dyed grains filtered it before it reached the emulsion. The exposure had to be very long. The result was a unique, realistic, positive color image on glass that required no further printing.
My personal reaction was how rustic it looked. I liked how you can see speckles of white spots on the picture but they are not big enough to take your eyes away from the photo. The way the picture was done made it have a black vignette around the edges.
Brittany Howard
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