This autochrome shows Arthur Ticier playing a cello. This was probably taken in a photographic studio.Autochrome was an early type of colour photography patented by the Lumière Brothers in 1903. Despite the breakthrough its invention represented, this photographic process was expensive to manufacture and never achieved wider commercial success.Photography was a transformational technology when it was first invented around 1839 and was quickly embraced by the Peranakans as soon as it arrived in Southeast Asia around 1841. This group of photographs reveals the longstanding relationship between Peranakans and photography which continues till today.
