AUTOCHROME Lumiere Brothers Couple flowers 1910
LOUIS AND AUGUSTE LUMIERE (ATTRIBUTED). Couple Seated in Garden, 1907-1910. 4.1x5.6" autochrome (oval vignette) on 5.1x7" glass. Printed 1907-1910.
The original source in Marseilles tends to confirm that this image was by the Lumiere studio. Several other plates from the same source and group were still lifes that contained known Lumiere props.
The French inventing team of brothers Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948) was responsible for a number of practical improvements in photography and motion pictures. Their work on color photography resulted in the Autochrome process, which remained the preferred method of creating color prints until the 1930s. They also applied their technological talents to the new idea of motion picture photography, creating the first projection system that allowed a film to be seen by more than one person at a time.
Auguste and Louis Lumiere were pioneers in the improvement of photographic materials and processes in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Using their scientific abilities and business talents, they were responsible for developing existing ideas in still photography and motion pictures to produce higher quality products that were practical enough to be of commercial value. Their initial business success was manufacturing a "dry" photographic plate that provided a new level of convenience to photographers. The brothers later turned to less viable experiments with color photography, producing a more refined, but expensive, method known as the Autochrome process. The best-known of the Lumieres' achievements, however, was the Cinematograph system of projected motion pictures. Their 1895 screening of a series of short films created with the Cinematograph at a Paris cafe is considered the first public cinema performance in history.
Credit: https://biography.yourdictionary.com/the-lumiere-brothers
Condition Report: Very good. Some silver mirroring visible on verso.
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LOUIS AND AUGUSTE LUMIERE (ATTRIBUTED). Couple Seated in Garden, 1907-1910. 4.1x5.6" autochrome (oval vignette) on 5.1x7" glass. Printed 1907-1910.
The original source in Marseilles tends to confirm that this image was by the Lumiere studio. Several other plates from the same source and group were still lifes that contained known Lumiere props.
The French inventing team of brothers Auguste Lumiere (1862-1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864-1948) was responsible for a number of practical improvements in photography and motion pictures. Their work on color photography resulted in the Autochrome process, which remained the preferred method of creating color prints until the 1930s. They also applied their technological talents to the new idea of motion picture photography, creating the first projection system that allowed a film to be seen by more than one person at a time.
Auguste and Louis Lumiere were pioneers in the improvement of photographic materials and processes in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Using their scientific abilities and business talents, they were responsible for developing existing ideas in still photography and motion pictures to produce higher quality products that were practical enough to be of commercial value. Their initial business success was manufacturing a "dry" photographic plate that provided a new level of convenience to photographers. The brothers later turned to less viable experiments with color photography, producing a more refined, but expensive, method known as the Autochrome process. The best-known of the Lumieres' achievements, however, was the Cinematograph system of projected motion pictures. Their 1895 screening of a series of short films created with the Cinematograph at a Paris cafe is considered the first public cinema performance in history.
Credit: https://biography.yourdictionary.com/the-lumiere-brothers
Condition Report: Very good. Some silver mirroring visible on verso.
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