Portrait of a young girl
- PART OF:
- Twenty autochromes
- Made:
- 1908
An autochrome of a young girl, daughter of the photographer, sitting on a garden bench under a tree, taken by Etheldreda Janet Laing (1872-1960) in 1908.
The girl, probably one of Laing's daughters, sits on the stone balustrade with a bowl of flowers. 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.
Lain had her own darkroom built in her house. She showed an immediate interest in the Autochrome colour process when the plates first became available in 1907. From 1908 she took many photographs of her daughters Janet and Iris in the garden
