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1Improving content on photographic techniques
Hand-painted photographs
2Introduction to hand-painted photographs
Introduction
3Introduction to colour
Packaging
4Packaging for colour plates and film
Photochromes, photochroms and related processes
5Léon Vidal: Le Trésor Artistique de la France (1878)
6Photochroms
Early colour processes
7Hillotypes
8James Clerk Maxwell: Experiments with colour
9Louis Ducos du Hauron: Early experiments with colour
10Gabriel Lippmann: Lippmann colour glass plate process
11Frederic Eugene Ives: San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
12Sanger Shepherd colour process
13Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Early colour photographs of trees and tracks
14Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Ethnic and traditional costumes
Dufay
15Dufay color
Paget plates
16Paget plates: Packaging
17Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
Autochromes
18The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes
19Examples of Autochromes
20Pictorialists and the Autochrome
21Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos
Colour photography and the First World War (1914-1918)
22Colour photography during the First World War (1914-1918)
23French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes)
24Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War
25Color postcards of the battles at Verdun
26Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War
Artistic colour photography in Europe
27Keld Helmer-Petersen: Colour
28Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome
29Franco Fontana: Colour
Nature photography and colour
30Eliot Porter: Colour
31Ernst Haas: Colour
Documentary photography and colour
32Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931)
33FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour
34John Bulmer: Colour
35Documerica Project (1971-1977)
Street photography and colour
36The acceptance of colour in North American street photography
37Harry Callahan: Colour work
38William Eggleston: Colour
39Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
40Helen Levitt: Colour
41Saul Leiter: New York in colour
42Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography
43Fred Herzog: Colour
Fashion and the use of colour
44The rise of colour in fashion photography
Advertising and commercial colour
45Nickolas Muray: Advertising
Colour abstracts
46Henry Holmes Smith: Colour abstractions
Colourising the past
47Colourising the past

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