About this artwork

This glowing picture of a harbour is an autochrome which was one of the first efficient colour processes of photography. It was a comparatively slow and expensive process and a landscape photograph in full sun, like this one, would take a couple of seconds to register. There is no movement in the fishing boats, so this must have been a remarkably still day.

Updated before 2020

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James Russell

James Russell