page_title: Autochrome Lumière
hierarchical_section_title: Autochrome Lumière
caption_attribution_description: English: A Lumière Brothers "Autochrome" of a Nieuport 23 C.1 fighter The Nieuport 17 had a centered Vickers machine gun, the 23 as here was offset. Other details were minor. May, 1917. Two other Autochrome images of camouflaged Nieuports also exist; a Nieuport 11 photographed in April of 1916 and an earlier built Nieuport 10 image taken at a Belgian flying school.
context_page_description: The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. Autochrome was an additive color "mosaic screen plate" process. It was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s.
  Prior to the Lumiere brothers, Louis Ducos du Hauron utilized the separation technique to create colour images on paper with screen plates, producing natural colours through superimposition, which would become the foundation of all commercial colour photography. Descendants of photographer Antoine Lumiere, inventors Louis and Auguste Lumiere utilized Du Hauron's technique, which had already been improved upon by other inventors such as John Joly and James William McDonough, making it possible to print photographic images in colour. The most broadly used form of colour photography in the early twentieth century, autochrome was cherished for its aesthetic appeal and uniqueness, which have also become its most recognizable characteristics.
context_section_description: The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. Autochrome was an additive color "mosaic screen plate" process. It was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s.
  Prior to the Lumiere brothers, Louis Ducos du Hauron utilized the separation technique to create colour images on paper with screen plates, producing natural colours through superimposition, which would become the foundation of all commercial colour photography. Descendants of photographer Antoine Lumiere, inventors Louis and Auguste Lumiere utilized Du Hauron's (1869) technique, which had already been improved upon by other inventors such as John Joly (1894) and James William McDonough (1896), making it possible to print photographic images in colour. The most broadly used form of colour photography in the early twentieth century, autochrome was cherished for its aesthetic appeal and uniqueness, which have also become its most recognizable characteristics.
caption: An Autochrome of a World War I Nieuport 23 biplane fighter, circa 1917.
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