autochrome

[aw-tuh-krohm]

noun

Photography.

1. a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of autochrome¹

First recorded in 1905–10; auto- ¹ + -chrome

Example Sentences

Introduced the previous year, the autochrome photograph was largely gone by 1930.

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Autochrome was the first technology that could capture the true colors of a subject.

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Exploring the autochrome in society, fashion and theater, and internationally, Ms. Blackman’s book earns a place on your shelf if only for its chapter on the Salon du Goût Française.

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As the world entered the tumultuous ’30s—a decade of avid modernism, economic upheaval and creeping fascism—the autochrome aesthetic was suddenly too rose-colored, its saturated light too Edenic.

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In February 1947 the couturier Christian Dior harked back to the rosy autochrome with his first collection, “Corolle,” named for the petaled cup of a flower and later christened the New Look.

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