The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF
The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF

The Art of the Autochrome: The Birth of Color Photography, John Wood, 1993, NF

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Wood, John. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993
English, Near Fine hardcover, quarto, 11 ¼” x 8 ¾”, 185 pp.
ISBN: 0877454132 

Near Fine quarto, dark blue cloth over boards, stamped silver lettering to spine, light gray endpapers, minimal soiling to free endpapers. Very Good dark blue dust jacket, photograph of Gervais Courtellemont’s Along the Dordogne, 1925, to front, dark blue and white lettering to front and spine, minimal edgewear, small dent to front panel near spine, ½” closed tear to back panel bottom edge, protected by Mylar sleeve. Text in English, Foreword by Merry A. Foresta, 75 full-color plates of autochrome portraits and still lifes including photographers like Alfred Stieglitz, Heinrich Kuhn, and Eduard Steichen, a splendid copy on the autochrome photographic processes, offering a  dreamlike, shimmering appeal. From the flap: “John Wood discusses the autochrome in the context of the art movements of its time...particularly within the Symbolist and Viennese Secession movements”.