Colour Photograph (Agfa) of his Garden at Leckford Road, Oxford, by Henry Minn, 1922/23

The plate has randomly distibuted colour-screen grains, is dark, has rich greens and reflects blue strongly on one side. The emulsion is cracked randomly and shows no sign of any parallel coating pattern. The Agfa process was invented during the First World War but not available in Britain until 1919 or after. The photograph shows Minn's garden at Leckford Road, Oxford, at the height of the growing season, full of lush vegetation and colourful flowers. The view is a version of 18919 (dated 1922/23 and labelled by Minn as Agfa process). This is one of the finest images from Minn, who was a skilled experimenter with early colour techniques, but whose colour photographs are usually of limited pictorial or compositional quality.