These Autochrome Photos From The 1920s And ’30s Resulted An A Painting-Like Quality That Not Even Today’s Best Instagram Filters Can Replicate

These Autochrome Photos From The 1920s And ’30s Resulted An A Painting-Like Quality That Not Even Today’s Best Instagram Filters Can Replicate


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The method used to create these dreamy photographs resulted in a paint quality that even the most modern Instagram filters can not reproduce.

Autochromes owe much of this stylized look to the method in which photographs were taken. Using a glass plate covered with dyed red, green and blue potato starches, an emulsion layer was added to the plate. Then these plates were inserted into a chamber in which there was a lens that filtered the light that had passed through the glass.
The technique became popular in National Geographic for its ability to demonstrate different parts of the world in bright colors. Autochromes were so widely used that the magazine now has one of the largest collections in the world, second only to the Archive of the Planet by Albert Kahn.
The following are some of the most popular examples of the "