autochrome
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- noun
- /ˈɔːtəˌkroʊm/
- Archaic
- Many photographers experimented with the autochrome technique in the early 20th century.
- autochrome process
Examples
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In 1907, the Lumière brothers introduced the autochrome process, which revolutionized color photography.
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The Homemade Camera Revival: Autochrome
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There are some suggestions that color exhibitions may have been held as early as 1907 with the then new autochrome.
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In 1902, the Lumière brothers in France invented the autochrome process.
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The autochrome was an innovative method for producing vibrant color images on glass plates.
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Morphology
autochrome = auto + chrome
Although the form looks like auto- + chrome, the word is a specialized technical coinage whose meaning as an early color-photography process is not directly recoverable for most learners from the parts.
Etymology
Autochrome comes from auto- ('self') and -chrome ('color'), with auto- like in automatic and -chrome like in monochrome. It was the name of an early process that made real color photos on glass plates, so an autochrome is like a picture that 'made its own color'.