The 1910s @the-1910s - Tumblr Blog

Exactly 100 years ago, respected pioneering woman photographer Mrs GA (Emma) Barton used Lumière Bros’ new autochrome colour process to create this astonishing colour photograph of a young woman in a garden with flowers, fruit and assorted gnomes (1919) Solio print by Emma Barton entitled “Old Familiar Flowers”. Unmounted. @artinsociety

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Margate beach by John Cimon Warburg, 1913

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Young Albanian girl from Prizren, Kosovo (1913)

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French Impressionist painter Armand Guillaumin painting in Crozant, 1917. Autochrome by Paul Burty Haviland.

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Autochrome: Anonymous. Ninette rooms. 1914. Musée d'Orsay.

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Expédition Endurance 1914-1917, Frank Hurley

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Autochrome by Etheldreda Janet Laing, c. 1914.

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Autochrome photographs of New Yorkers by John B. Trevor circa 1910.

via reddit

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Color autochrome portrait of a group sitting on a bench probably somewhere in France, c. 1911. Taken by French autochrome inventors Auguste and Louis Jean Lumière.

Source: Sotheby’s.

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Autochrome photo of women picking flowers in the field, Charles Corbet. Between 1909 and 1914.

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Paul Sano, Source of the Gileppe river c. 1913, autochrome

I also dreamed that I was exploring the banks of the creek behind the house in which my grandparents lived, long ago, in Ohio. It had been a cold winter and as the spring dawned and the iced melted, the rains came and began to flood the area. I was trapped high on a ridge above town without a soul knowing of my whereabouts.

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