True Colors : Color in Photography from 1849 to 1955

Photography’s various colouring processes opened up a radiant new cosmos. The Albertina’s unique collection sheds light on the complex topic of historical colour photos. It ranges from early coloured one-offs to the emergence of mass-produced colour photographs on a positive-negative basis. The numerous techniques, many of them little - known, and the resulting diverse applications reveal a revolution across our entire visual culture.