Summary of Color Photography - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 11 of 12

Color photography initially seen as artificial, black and white considered more authentic.

Film for color prints became available after WWII, transforming people's associations with photography.

All silver-based photographic processes start off as blue sensitive.

Dye sensitizing of emulsions was done by adding dyes to liquid emulsion.

Frederic Ives instrumental in understanding dye sensitizing for color images.

Early color photography involved making three negatives of the same scene and combining them.

Additive color plates used dots or lines of red, violet, and green for color mixing.

James Clerk Maxwell experimented with additive color mixing in the 1850s.

Autochrome invented by Lumière brothers, first color process available to the public.

Chromogenic color photography invented in the 1930s, Kodachrome process ushered in color movement.

Chromogenic color prints made with gelatin emulsion based on silver and multiple layers.

Once chromogenic color process is gone, it will not be replicated due to infrastructure requirements.

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03:58 — « The other way of making a color photograph is by the subtractive method."] »

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