Side profile of a girl

An autochrome photograph showing the side profile of a girl, taken by Etheldreda Janet Laing, c. 1910.

The girl is probably one of Laing's daughters. Laing regularly photographed her daughters in the ground of their home, Bury Knowle House in Oxfordshire. The autochrome process was the first really practicable and commercially successful process for colour photography.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1980-989/4
Materials:
paper
type:
photograph and autochrome print