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Autochrome Lumière: When the World First Turned to Colour in the Early 1900s
These days, we don’t give colour photography a second thought. It’s everywhere. From the high-res selfies on your phone to vintage film simulations on Instagram, colour has become so normal, so ever-present, that it’s easy to forget just how long it took for photography to get there, and how mind-blowing those early colour images must have seemed. Back in the early 20th century, when someone first saw a colour photograph, it wasn’t just impressive, it was magical. The colour
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