#ireland #photography
Irish Woman

Photographers Madeleine Mignon and Marguerite Mespoulet. Ireland.1913. Autochrome Colour photograph.
- The autochrome process, also known as the Autochrome Lumière, was invented in France by brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière.
The Lumière brothers presented their research into colour photography to the Académie des Sciences in 1904. The commercial manufacture of autochrome plates began in 1907, and the first public demonstration of the autochrome process took place on 10 June 1907, at the offices of the French newspaper L‘Illustration.