New research about photographer, author and journalist Percy R. Salmon FRPS has been published to mark the anniversary of his birth (12th March 1872).
It reveals his role in the arrival and adoption of the Autochrome colour process in Britain in the summer of 1907.
Salmon is best-known as editor of the weekly Photographic News (1901-1905) and author of more than 20 books that helped popularise photography in the early decades of the 20th century.
Royal Photographic Society film about Percy R. Salmon
Photo credit: Percy R. Salmon FRPS (1872-1959) by HD Halksworth Wheeler FRPS (1878-1937).
