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Photochrom

Process of colorizing black-and-white photographs and subsequent printing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 15, 2026
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Photochrom, Photochrome, Fotochrom or the Aäc process is a process of colorizing from a single black-and-white negative with subsequent photographic transfer onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography. Because no color information was preserved in the photographic process, the photographer would make detailed notes on the colors within the scene and use the notes to transfer the image through colored gels onto the printing plates.

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The public source identifies “Photochrom” as process of colorizing black-and-white photographs and subsequent printing. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Photochrom, Process and colorizing.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 70-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Photochrom, Process and colorizing providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Photochrom” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.