Smoke and Mirrors: the Magic of Autochrome December 10, 2009

Prior to the invention of mass produced subtractive color film in the 1930s, artists favored autochrome: a process that used dyed potato grains to create a chromatic screen that made capturing color simple. The resulting images are old-timey, muted and haunting. Smoke and Mirrors features the autochromatic works of Will Connell and W. Edwin Gledhill.