A family stands outside their cottage in County Cork.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
In 1927, National Geographic sent staff photographer Clifton R. Adams to Ireland to photograph the way people lived.
Adams shot with an early form of color photography called the Autochrome process. Patented in 1903 by the famous Lumière brothers, Autochrome used a layer of potato starch grains dyed red, green and blue, along with a complex development process, to produce a color transparency.
Requiring longer exposure times than normal black and white pictures, Autochromes often came out with a slightly blurred, dreamlike quality. Combined with the pointillist dots of color, they often looked like Impressionist paintings.By 1938, Autochrome had been largely abandoned in favor of the faster and easier Kodachrome process.
Farmers stack hay on their farm in County Cork.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
When Adams visited Ireland in 1927, the country had only recently emerged from the violent years of the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and the partitioning of the island into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.The country at this time was primarily an agrarian society of tenant farmers, and was still underpopulated following the tremendous death and emigration of the Great Famine of 1842-1852. In 1926 its population was at a historic low of just under 3 million.
A thatched-roof cottage with a large front garden.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
A young girl knits a wool garment in Ardara.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
A woman knits wool clothing under a fuchsia tree.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
Two women talk in a cottage garden.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
A woman poses next to a windowbox in front of her cottage.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
Three generations of peasant women stand outside their stone cottage.
IMAGE: CLIFTON R. ADAMS/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/CORBIS
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