As it turns out, the autochrome wasn't the colour photography process people had been awaiting. That honor went to Kodachrome. Nevertheless, the autochrome prepped photographer for working with colour, a process that required significantly different thinking from the monotones of the gelatin silver print. As the German secessionist photographer Heinrich Kuhn remarked, the autochrome could be 'dangerously colourful' , making colour the overbearing subject of a photograph. Kuhn's accusation proved prescient and haunted colour photography until the last decades of then twentieth century.