From hand-tinted daguerreotypes to the digital sensor, the quest for color has been the "holy grail" of the medium. Explore the chemical, optical, and digital breakthroughs that finally allowed us to see the world as it truly is.
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| 1 | Improving content on photographic techniques |
| Hand-painted photographs |
| 2 | Introduction to hand-painted photographs |
| Introduction |
| 3 | Introduction to colour |
| Packaging |
| 4 | Packaging for colour plates and film |
| Photochromes, photochroms and related processes |
| 5 | Léon Vidal: Le Trésor Artistique de la France (1878) |
| 6 | Photochroms |
| Early colour processes |
| 7 | Hillotypes |
| 8 | James Clerk Maxwell: Experiments with colour |
| 9 | Louis Ducos du Hauron: Early experiments with colour |
| 10 | Gabriel Lippmann: Lippmann colour glass plate process |
| 11 | Frederic Eugene Ives: San Francisco Earthquake (1906) |
| 12 | Sanger Shepherd colour process |
| 13 | Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Early colour photographs of trees and tracks |
| 14 | Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii: Ethnic and traditional costumes |
| Dufay |
| 15 | Dufay color |
| Paget plates |
| 16 | Paget plates: Packaging |
| 17 | Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) |
| Autochromes |
| 18 | The Lumière Brothers and the family: Autochromes |
| 19 | Examples of Autochromes |
| 20 | Pictorialists and the Autochrome |
| 21 | Fernand Cuville: Greece: Mount Athos |
| Colour photography and the First World War (1914-1918) |
| 22 | Colour photography during the First World War (1914-1918) |
| 23 | French color photographs of the First World War (Autochromes) |
| 24 | Fernand Cuville: Autochromes of the First World War |
| 25 | Color postcards of the battles at Verdun |
| 26 | Frank Hurley: Paget plates of the First World War |
| Artistic colour photography in Europe |
| 27 | Keld Helmer-Petersen: Colour |
| 28 | Luigi Ghirri: Kodachrome |
| 29 | Franco Fontana: Colour |
| Nature photography and colour |
| 30 | Eliot Porter: Colour |
| 31 | Ernst Haas: Colour |
| Documentary photography and colour |
| 32 | Albert Kahn: Archives of the Planet (1909-1931) |
| 33 | FSA - Farm Security Administration - OWI: Early colour |
| 34 | John Bulmer: Colour |
| 35 | Documerica Project (1971-1977) |
| Street photography and colour |
| 36 | The acceptance of colour in North American street photography |
| 37 | Harry Callahan: Colour work |
| 38 | William Eggleston: Colour |
| 39 | Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places |
| 40 | Helen Levitt: Colour |
| 41 | Saul Leiter: New York in colour |
| 42 | Joel Meyerowitz: Street photography |
| 43 | Fred Herzog: Colour |
| Fashion and the use of colour |
| 44 | The rise of colour in fashion photography |
| Advertising and commercial colour |
| 45 | Nickolas Muray: Advertising |
| Colour abstracts |
| 46 | Henry Holmes Smith: Colour abstractions |
| Colourising the past |
| 47 | Colourising the past |
