Meaning & use
Heliochrome
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An early photographic image reproduced in natural colors, a term used chiefly in 19th-century photography before modern color processes existed.
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The archive holds one of the few surviving heliochromes from the 1860s.
Early photographers experimented with heliochrome techniques long before commercial color film was invented.
A note on using this word
From Greek "helios" (sun) and "chroma" (color), the term largely fell out of use once modern color photography vocabulary replaced it.
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