PIERRE AND ANDRE WATCHING THE SEA, 1921, AUTOCHROME PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUSTAVE GAIN
Gustave Gain (1876-1945) took pictures at home and on the beaches of his native Normandy and Brittany. A member of the French Photography Society and a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Gain initially worked with stereoscopic views but became enamored with Autochrome, the first industrial color photography technique created by brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1903.