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Autochrome is the first color image in history

Years before the Lumber brothers, who were considered until a short time as the inventors of the Autochrome-Fun technology. Color Recorder - French photographers Louis Amedeh Mant and Edmund Goldsmith were the first to produce images in this style of glamorous girls whose beauty qualified them to be the subject of a color photograph that their admirers hung on the walls of their rooms

Autochrome plates are considered the first color images in the history of photography, and their placement was relatively simple. The starch atoms were colored in the following colors: red, orange, green, and violet, and the colored powder was applied by means of a brush made of ermine fur - a mammal with soft fur - on a glass plate the size of The postcard is then stamped with a mixture of thousands of colored atoms, using a light-sensitive layer. And this is all, indeed, after endorsement, the photographer keeps what is called a diapositif - a picture or drawing on glass or film that becomes visible to the eye by shining a radiant light behind it - that is, an image behind the glass composed of transparent colored dots, luminous, impressionistic and hidden; For a long time, the prevailing consideration remained that the two brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière were the inventors of autochrome in particular, and the patent was registered - in this field in 1904 - in their name. We mention here that the Lumière brothers are also the inventors of the film industry, and in 1907 they published Their first glass panels to the market, and after years the most beautiful optical images were produced by the pioneers of this type .. German Henrich Kuhn - and the French George Palani and Antonini But who is the real inventor - of the autochrome * It is Louis Amade Mant, who reached this path in 1895, and this What was later revealed by the French, Jacqueline Millet, one of Louis’s granddaughters, who found two hundred Onochrome plates in her home among her grandfather’s remnants. Louis Amadé Mant, born in 1826, originally wanted to become a musician, so for a long time he lived a double life as he went in the evening with clothes. He went to the opera concerts, and during the day he sat in the dark room to do his experiments with photographs, as he used to give lessons in this art that attracted people at that time. Students flocked to his workshop, and he received two hundred gold francs for group lessons, which he spent generously on equipment, sailboats, and balls.

In the following years, the conditions of the musician-photographer deteriorated at a time when he had created many techniques and photographed on ivory, zinc and steel plates. These works brought him a lot of appreciation, but little money. In that period, a Parisian publisher named Paul Dupont deceived him in a large operation in which Louis employed all his wealth, which exposed him to bankruptcy. As a result, he moved with his family to a modest apartment in the basement of one of the buildings. The failed musician's consolation was in his daughters. The three, known as Beauties Maene, appeared on the opera stage in the Paris Ballet, which increased their fame. As for the event that gave the face and history of photography, it took place in 1892, when Dandy Edmund Gould Saidt, at the age of twenty-nine, fell in love with Blanche Manet, daughter of Louis, who She was fifteen years old at the time, and Edmund fled with the minor daughter to Venice in Italy, then he soon regretted what he had done and returned to reconcile with the father and marry his daughter, and he generously compensated for what he had done.
He was generous when he set up for his uncle - his father-in-law - a photography studio in Pigalle Street. Louis Amade Mant and Edmund Gold Smit seemed to work together permanently since then, so they furnished the workshop with taste and generosity with wonderful lighting devices, wooden cameras and accessories that suit the taste of the era, and they held evening social parties in their workshop. They also contracted with the most beautiful model technicians in the city, which Mitte recently created, which is the autochrome on this Paris, to be photographed using the colored glass paintings technique. Women did not appear romantic at all, but appeared as the public wanted them to. Mant and Gold Smidt photographed her in a charming and imitative atmosphere in wedding pools, for example, or between Greek structures or in Egyptian boudoirs.. So the woman appeared to them like Judit or Cleopatra. It remains to be mentioned that the first of these pictures - Autochrome by Louis Amand Mant and Edmund Gold Smidt appeared in 1895, i.e. More than ten years before the first similar photo of the Lucera brothers appeared