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DAY 242 | HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY |
Color Photography
OUT WITH THE GRAY
Very early in the history of photography, people were experimenting with ways to render images in color. Starting in the 1840s and continuing for nearly the next two decades, a variety of photographers claimed to have discovered a successful process, but it was not until 1861 that James Clerk Maxwell created what is now widely considered the first color photograph. Maxwell’s method involved taking three slides of the same subject and then projecting them through colored solutions.
While other people had degrees of success in fits and starts over the next decades, the ...
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