a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet
Word origin
[1905–10; auto-1 + -chrome]
Examples of 'autochrome' in a sentence
autochrome
By 1928 he had amassed 72,000 colour autochromes, the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.