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Book cover for "A Century of Colour Photography: From the autochrome to the digital age" by Pamela Roberts (Carlton Books, 2007) 
2007 
  
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LL/18831 
  
June 2007 will be the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the autochrome colour process to the public. Photography had barely been announced to the world in 1839 before photographers were striving for colour. After much experimentation throughout the nineteenth century, in 1907, the LumiŪre Brothers launched the first commercial colour process - the autochrome - on to an eager market. For the first time, realistic colour reproduction was achievable for both amateur and professional alike. Since that early and inspired invention, the technology and artistry of colour photography have progressed hand in hand for a century, until today. Now, seeing the world captured only in black and white is almost unthinkable, whereas once it was inevitable.
 
In A Century of Colour Photography, Pamela Roberts, a former Curator at the Royal Photographic Society, has gathered together an outstanding collection of colour images from the last 100 years. These range from works in autochrome and other early processes, through the glamour of the 1930s, the social documentation of the 1940s and the magazine-led explosion of colour in the 1950s, to the popularisation of colour photography in the 1960s, experimentation in the 1970s and 80s, and the new directions in which photography has developed around the world in the years preceeding and following the turn of the millennium.
 
A Century of Colour Photography is a comprehensive, informed and stunning collection of images that will fascinate anyone with an interest in photography, showing how changes in society were often just as influential as technological developments in steering colour photography in new directions.
 
Author
 
Pamela Roberts is an independent researcher, curator and writer. From 1982-2001, she was the Curator of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, organizing over 70 exhibitions and writing catalogues on subjects as varied as Julia Margaret Cameron, Madame Yevonde, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and Don McCullin. In 1995 she was awarded a museums' exchange programme to work at the Library of Congress in Washington and in 2003, she was a Guest Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her most recent publications include F. Holland Day (2000), Photogenic (2000) and two essays in All the Mighty World: the Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860 (2004), essays in the Folio Society's 100 Best Photographs (2006), and an exhibition catalogue, Roger Fenton and Others (2006), for the Colnaghi gallery in Bond Street, London. She is also the author of Photohistorica: Landmarks in Photography (2000) and Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work - The Complete Illustrations 1903-1917 (1997). Work in progress includes a book and exhibition on Alvin Langdon Coburn with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and a survey of Coburn's archives for a book detailing the holdings of the library of George Eastman House, Rochester, USA. 
 

 
  
 
  
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