Autochrome – “Family Portrait” Circa 1920

DESCRIPTION

Beautiful autochrome.
Portrait of a family: a young man with a fine mustache, a young woman dressed in a military uniform, and a woman seated with a bouquet of flowers on her lap.
Format: 9 × 12 cm.

“This is not a snapshot, but the reproduction of a frozen and composed moment, illuminated by an impression — a sensation of color generated by countless touches of pigment shaped by the brush of light.”
— Institut Lumière

AND IN ADDITION…

Patented in 1903 and presented to the Académie des Sciences in 1904, the Autochrome Lumière plate, invented by Louis Lumière, is the first color photographic process.
Its innovation lies in the use of tinted potato starch grains, which capture and filter light to create color.

Who are we?

La Valise Arlésienne

Between gallery and cabinet of curiosities, “La Valise Arlésienne” reveals its photographic treasures.
Taken from this suitcase, these carefully selected curiosities are destined for new journeys.

Located at 8 rue du Docteur Fanton in Arles, the world capital of Photography, we offer original prints from the 19th and 20th centuries, cameras and folding cameras, daguerreotypes…
Unusual objects that bear witness to discoveries and advances in photography, and lost images in search of a reinvented story or orphaned collections.

Whether you are a collector or simply drawn to a particular piece, it is the rediscovered memory of photographic objects that will set off again and continue their story.

La Valise Arlésienne invites you on a journey through time, through the stories these objects tell —
a slow or swift pause among mirrors that remember and other travelling cameras.

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