100 years ago… in Paris
Paris, France
This is a small sampling of Autochrome images made in Paris between 1914 and 1918. The Autochrome process was developed by the Lumière brothers in 1903. The technique was based on a composite of black and white emulsions passed through a series of color filters (red, blue and green) designed based on potato starch (this technique was abandoned in 1935 in favor of the process Kodachrome, then Agfachrome the following year).
See more of these amazing century-old images of the city of love here.