Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilizing innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid Autochromes. The tableaux of his Autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first color photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic.
Here is a dreamy Autochrome photo collection that he shot from 1910 to 1915:
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| Farmers on cart, ca. 1912 |
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| Ancient times, ca. 1912 |
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| Children at play, ca. 1912 |
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| Civic and military garb, ca. 1911 |
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| Dahlias, ca. 1913 |
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| Garden view, ca. 1914 |
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| Grecian times, 1912 |
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| Groupe antique composition, ca. 1912 |
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| Innocence, ca. 1912 |
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| Mime in love, ca.1912 |
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| Mime in love, ca.1912 |
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| Modesty, 1912 |
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| Musing (Mrs. A. Van Besten), ca. 1910 |
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| Nero playing the harp, 1912 |
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| Pink and green wigs, ca. 1912 |
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| Shepherd’s boy, ca.1913 |
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| Still life with brown fruit, ca.1913 |
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| Symphony in white, 1912 |
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| Two girls picking cornflowers, ca. 1912 |
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| Van Besten painting in his garden |
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| Washing and bleaching |
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| Windmill at twilight, ca.1913 |
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| Winter at Brugge unloading barge, ca. 1912 |
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| Winter scene in park, ca. 1912 |
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| Young girl amidst marguerites, ca. 1912 |
