The Color of Clothes: Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930

The story of photography’s first widely accessible color process is also the story of fashion, as it evolved from the Edwardian era to the newfound fluidity and freedom of the 1920s.

"Soon the world will be color-mad and Lumière will be responsible.” — Alfred Stieglitz, 1907

These words announced the arrival of the autochrome, the color process invented by the Lumière brothers that not only transformed photography, but also recorded the transition of fashion from Edwardian elegance toward a l...