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The world in color.

Publication: Afterimage
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The world in color.(A Century of Colour Photography: From the Autochrome to the Digital Age)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A CENTURY OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM THE AUTOCHROME TO THE DIGITAL AGE

BY PAMELA ROBERTS

LONDON: ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD, CARLTON PUBLISHING GROUP, 2007

256 PP./$39.00 (HB)

Marking the centennial of the commercial introduction of the Lumiere brothers' autochrome process in 1907, Pamela Roberts, former Curator at the Royal Photographic Society from 1982 to 2001, has written a much-needed introduction to the underserved history of color photography. A Century of Colour Photography: From the Autochrome to the Digital Age presents the major technical and artistic happenings of the held over the past one-hundred years plus a brief chapter about its earlier developments.

The large-format pages (12-3/8 x 10-1/4 inches) feature a straightforward design with good size reproductions on glossy stock, offering unencumbered viewing of over three-hundred color plates. However, the overall production values convey an atmosphere of advertising rather than one...

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