Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilizing innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid Autochromes. The tableaux of his Autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first color photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic.
Here is a dreamy Autochrome photo collection that he shot from 1910 to 1915.
Farmers on cart, ca. 1912Ancient times, ca. 1912Children at play, ca. 1912Civic and military garb, ca. 1911Dahlias, ca. 1913Garden view, ca. 1914Grecian times, 1912Groupe antique composition, ca. 1912Innocence, ca. 1912Mime in love, ca.1912Mime in love, ca.1912Modesty, 1912Musing (Mrs. A. Van Besten), ca. 1910Nero playing the harp, 1912Pink and green wigs, ca. 1912Shepherd’s boy, ca.1913Still life with brown fruit, ca.1913Symphony in white, 1912Two girls picking cornflowers, ca. 1912Van Besten painting in his gardenWashing and bleachingWindmill at twilight, ca.1913Winter at Brugge unloading barge, ca. 1912Winter scene in park, ca. 1912Young girl amidst marguerites, ca. 1912
(Photos by Alfonse Van Besten)
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