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Discusses the history of the first practical color photographic process, shows examples, and explains the process
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Those who have no sense of photographic history--and think of color photography as having its origins in the 1930s or '40s--may be stunned into silence by this homage to the invention that revolutionized the art form at the turn of the century. John Wood presents a selection of the finest surviving examples of the autochrome process here, including the work of still life masters Heinrich Kuhn and Wladimir Schohin, the painterly Antonin Personnaz, and the now-forgotten Gervais Courtellemont, whose work was widely published in National Geographic in the '20s. Wood also showcases the efforts of pre-Revolutionary Russian writer Leonid Andreyev and American studio portraitist J. B. Whitcomb, whose autochromes were not discovered until the '70s and '80s; the find of Andreyev's autochromes (by archivist Richard Davies) is trumpeted by the author as "one of the most important photographic discoveries ever made."
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Wood was born in Kent. He now lives with his wife and daughter. He served with the RAF; worked as a forester in Canada and England; manufactured bird-tables; was landlord at "The Red Lion" in Rode near Bath--and now writes full time.
John Wood is the author of several prize-winning books of poetry and photographic criticism, including the recently released "Selected Poems: 1968-1998". His essays on a wide variety of subjects have appeared in many books and journals. Wood is the editor of "21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography".
Foresta is senior curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution.
John Wood is the author of several prize-winning books of poetry and photographic criticism, including the recently released "Selected Poems: 1968-1998". His essays on a wide variety of subjects have appeared in many books and journals. Wood is the editor of "21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography".
Foresta is senior curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution.
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- PublisherUniversity Of Iowa Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0877454132
- ISBN 13 9780877454137
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages202
- EditorWood John
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