Louis Lumière is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his seminal role in the invention of cinema, but his most important contribution to the history of photogra

Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printi

Autochrome photographs of Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) - the first commercially viable process for colour photography. Many of the autochromes are displayed

With the advent of digital imaging, the era of traditional color photography is coming to an end. Yet more than 150 years after the invention of color photograp

In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on Eart