Autochrome: an early form of color photography created by the Lumiere brothers in France.

Emile F.Guiton

Born 1879 in Jersey, he was a member of Societe Jersiaise and was a curator of the museum. He was an amateur photographer who experimented with color during the early days of auto chrome. He had a fascination of how buildings change over times. He recognized the importance of collecting and recording photographers, and donated many images to the Societe Jersiaise .

Examples of his work:

His Style:

Some of his images are in black and white and other starting to incorporate color in the style of early color photography, auto chromes. His auto chromes are most famously still life images of flowers on tables against black backgrounds. His Auto chromes naturally have a faded looking blur to them that make them look like really detailed oil paintings. In some of his images he includes wilting flowers.

Analysis

Technical

The light appears to artificial and coming from the left side of the image because one half to the image is lit whilst the other part has shadow to it creating tonal range. The color balance is quite warm but that is probably because it’s an auto chrome.

Visual

Because of the fact it’s an auto chrome and looks like an oil painting the image looks quite flat. Because of the flowers there is a lot of texture in the image because he’s chosen flowers with lots of petals and leaves. He’s composed the image so the vase in the center of the shot and has framed it with the black background. The vase is on a surface which he has tried to cover with leaves in order to disguise it.