In Living Color
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: Eye CandyRobert M. Poole reports for the Smithsonian:
“The most improbable object imaginable—the lowly, lumpy potato—played a leading role in the Great Leap Forward of color photography. The story begins in 1903, when two imaginative French inventors, Auguste and Louis Lumière, seized the pomme de terre and made it the basis for a dazzling new imaging process they called the autochrome, an innovation that would transform a monochromatic world into one suddenly gleaming with color.”
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