{"product_id":"birth-of-a-century-early-color-photographs-of-america","title":"Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBirth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJim Hughes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781850436461\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSt Martins Pr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e224\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn 1897, the American photographer and adventurer William Henry Jackson, after having spent three decades documenting the development of the North American frontier, sold his archive of photographic negatives, to the Detroit Photographic Company, which he also joined as a partner. The Detroit firm had recently licensed Photochrom, a secret Swiss process for turning black-and-white photographs into colour. Completely distinct from today's four colour halftone-screen reproduction, Photochrom involved the use of a dozen or more asphalt-coated lithographic stones; it was a labour intensive process whose results could be superior to original colour prints using modern materials. W.H. Jackson devoted his next, and last, five years of active photography to Photochrom. He travelled the length and breadth of North America, often in a specially equipped railroad car, in search of images that might tell the story of the end of one epoch and the dawning of another.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"St Martins Pr","offers":[{"title":"Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America | Jim Hughes | Hardcover | 9781850436461 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1743224","offer_id":48180509081752,"sku":"1743224","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81o6uKn2w9L.jpg?v=1772226249","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/birth-of-a-century-early-color-photographs-of-america","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}