For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...

There's a legend that when the Lumiere brothers -- pioneers of motion pictures -- showed their film of an approaching train in 1896, the audience ran amok in terror ...

Simply sign up to the Fashion myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Described by photography historian John Wood as “the rarest, the most fragile and, to a great many eyes, the most ...

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Ethelreda Laing's autochrome of her daughters is an example of early colour photography. The autochrome process used a random mosaic of coloured ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in ...