The 100-year-old photo shoot is the oldest of all surviving color photographs
English engineer and photographer Mervyn O'Gorman (1871-1958) is a pioneer of color photography. Mervyn was 42 when he decided to capture his daughter Christina in a color photo shoot in 1913.
To create these photographs, Mervyn used a technique called Autochrome, which allows color photographs to be taken and patented by the French Lumiere brothers in 1903.
Mervyn O'Gorman photographed his daughter Christina on the beaches of Southern England.
The photographs of this series were recognized as the oldest of all surviving color photographs.
In 2016, these photos turned 103 years old.
Her father specifically asked Kristina to wear bright red clothes, because it was the bright colors that showed up best in the photos taken in Autochrome technique.
The Autochrome technique used special glass plates coated with potato starch and dye.
Mervyn died in 1958.
How Kristina's life turned out is still unknown.
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