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The colour of clothes : fashion and dress in autochromes 1907-1930 /

"The story of photography's first practicable colour process is also the story of fashion as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blackman, Cally (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, 2025.
Subjects:
Color photography > Autochrome process > History > 20th century.
Fashion photography > History > 20th century.
Color photography > Autochrome process.
Fashion photography.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > 20th century.
Photographie en couleurs > Procédé autochrome.
Photographie de mode.
Photographie en couleurs > Procédé autochrome > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Photographie de mode > Histoire > 20e siècle.
fashion photography.
Autochrome process.
1900-1999
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Flou, fashion and photography
  • 1. The art of the Autochrome, 1904-1914. Autochromes ; Focus on colour ; Autochromistes
  • 2. Colour and change, 1907-1919. High society ; Fashion in motion
  • 3. Fashion and fantasy, 1895-1925. Eastern entanglements ; Colour, costume, and the king of fashion ; Poiret's colour bomb
  • 4. Modernity, 1919-1930. A new internationalism ; The Salon du Gout Francais ; Albert Kahn's archives of the planet