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SEEING IN COLOR
The earliest color pictures Autochromes needed
required photographers to take three long exposures so most
were of still scenes.
photographs using red, blue, and green
filters, and then superimpose them
using projectors. In 1907, the French
Lumière brothers found a way of
combining the colors on a single plate
in a process they called “autochrome.”
◀ PEGGY IN THE
GARDEN, 1909
This autochrome picture
was taken by pioneering
The photographic plate is English photographer,
at the rear of the case.
John Cimon Warburg,
who took up photography COMMUNICATION
in the 1880s.

Magnesium foil is electrically
IN A FLASH ignited by the wire filament.
For lighting in
dark places, early
photographers used
flash powder—a mix of
magnesium powder
and potassium chlorate,
ignited in a pan. It was Wire
very dangerous. In filament
1929, a German
company introduced
the flashbulb, with
magnesium contained German GELATIN DRY PLATES
in the bulbs. flashbulb, 1929 Developed in 1871, the gelatin dry plate
was more sensitive than previous film
plates and reduced exposure time. For the
The Kodak came with ON A ROLL first time, a tripod or other support was
a 100-exposure In 1885, the American George Eastman introduced not necessary. Small cameras could be
film inside it.
transparent, flexible photographic film. This allowed handheld while taking “snapshots.”
multiple images to be taken using a roll of film
rather than a single plate. Eastman introduced a
camera for his film, the Kodak, which
was first offered for sale in Original Kodak film
1888. The Kodak camera pack from 1890
was handheld and easy to
use, making photography
accessible to more people,
not only professional
photographers.

Kodak The camera had to be returned to
camera, 1888 the factory when film was finished
so the photos could be developed.
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