Unknown Photographer, Study Of Tulips, Colour Transparency, 1950s

National Trust, Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset (NT 1254174.2)

Kodachrome colour film became commercially available in 1935, initially for 16mm cine cameras but 35mm photographic film soon followed. The world never looked back, and colour photography became hugely popular.

Flowers are common subjects of colour photographs

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because of their vibrant tones and photogenic forms. Colour transparencies such as this are positive colour

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images on film or glass to be viewed by transmitted light. Transparencies can be used to make photographic

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prints, in the same way that negatives can.