Ternström's house, Sillgatan, Uddevalla, 1928 The motif is included in a collection of 18 auto chrome plates (glass plates prepared with very small colored starch grains in Cinnober red, yellow -green and ultramarin blue) in format 9x12, stored in a well -made charter lid on whose lids are inserted by wood . The box was found in Uddevalla City Architects' Archives and donated to Bohuslän's Museum in 1982. How the glass plates ended up at the city architect office is unknown. The unique photographs were taken by the amateur photographer and Stockholmer Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist (1878 - 1967)

Ternström's house, Sillgatan, Uddevalla, 1928 The motif is included in a collection of 18 auto chrome plates (glass plates prepared with very small colored starch grains in Cinnober red, yellow -green and ultramarin blue) in format 9x12, stored in a well -made charter lid on whose lids are inserted by wood . The box was found in Uddevalla City Architects' Archives and donated to Bohuslän's Museum in 1982. How the glass plates ended up at the city architect office is unknown. The unique photographs were taken by the amateur photographer and Stockholmer Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist (1878 - 1967) who already at the age of 14 began to devote himself to photography. During the 1910s he became Sweden's first color photographer and image creation became a life task that kept him active up to his 80s. He is said to have stopped counting his pictures after achieved 50,000. What impresses the most is still the extensive lecture tours that Cronquist conducted. He started cuddling around already in 1900 and was out about 125 days a year. The final figure is not below 6,000. The lectures contained the most varied substances and the trips also extended outside the country's borders, among other things. a. to the United States. One thing, however, the tours had in common, it was his own pictures that the audience experienced via the skiptican apparatus, usually in the intimate atmosphere of candles .cronquist's great interest lay in the technical direction; He studied light conditions and the landscape's change during different times. The motifs may therefore appear a little restrained, usually without people who otherwise live up eg. city pictures. The early photographs also had the low exposure time to take into account. Cronquist may have chosen a blurred public in favor of a smooth motif with maximum sharpness. Gustaf Wernersson Cronquist is best known through its numerous Stockholm pictures in color. Autochrome technology is based on the knowledge of the light -sensiti

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