You are cordially invited to the 10th Exhibition of the Šechtl & Voseèek Museum of Photography: “100 Years of Autochrome” Opening day: Thursday, 25th October, 2007, at 5pm, in the Šechtl & Voseèek Museum of Photography. The exhibition will be opened by Alain Scheibli from France, great-grandson of Antoine Lumière, and by historian Pavel Scheufler. Autochrome Lumiére was the first commercially successful process of color photography. It was patented by the Lumière brothers in France in 1903, and was produced commercially from 1907 until about 1935. The photographs are large glass slides, where the color picture is produced by an optical trick, which combines a black and white emulsion and a color mosaic. The resulting photographs surprise by their beautiful colors (even if they are not completely real), and thus they soon became popular as an artistic, documentary and scientific medium. This technique remained the principal color photography process available, until it was superseded by the advent of color film during the mid-1930s. Our exhibition introduces works of Czech autochromists such as Karel Šmirous, Richard Brunner Dvoøák, and Josef Jindøich Šechtl, and other autochromists from around the world. It also introduces us to the techniques of early color photography, and their problems. http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/muzeum.html
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