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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artist:
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title:St Monance, Fife
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date created:About 1910
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materials:Autochrome
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measurements:3.80 x 10.00 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 124
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James Russell
James Russell
James Russell was an amateur photographer and member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Little is known about him beside the fact that his autochrome transparencies won numerous awards in the years leading up to the First World War.