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· 08 Feb 2022

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When was color photography invented?

The first images taken were in black & white color, & it remained the only medium for discovering light, composition, and texture. However, the automation in digital images mimics a complete spectrum of observable colors, color photography makes images that appear more realistic i.e. the way the world actually looks like. Digital editing tools help add colors to your pictures the way you want them. Nowadays, our mobile phones have inbuilt cameras, there are uncountable camera options one can pick from. Have you ever wondered when and how was photography invented? When was color photography invented? Let us read ahead to dive deep into the historical development of the field of photography.

Color photography history
It's been a long journey from black-and-white picture photography to more vivacious colored pictures that we see now. Long before there was a digital camera, the photographers took images in just black and white color till 1839. They assembled on polished-metal plates doing a photographic procedure involving very long exposure times & light-sensitive chemicals, and the process was called daguerreotyping. It was the first-ever method used for photographing. Furthermore, Black-and-white images evolved & remained known all through the WWI. During that time, color photography was not a commercially viable process. But finally, in the early 20th century, Dr. H W Vogel created the first fully panchromatic plates sensitive to all colors. These plates were available at a feasible rate in the market, and that's how the era of color photography started.

When was color photography invented?
Levi Hill was an American Baptist-Pastor who claimed to have invented it in 1851. The question that who discovered color images first has been debated for a long time.
Others believe that the description of a tartan-ribbon taken ten years later (1861) by Thomas Sutton to be the prototype. He was an inventor of the single-lens reflex camera. Sutton utilized an additive-color way created by James Clark Maxwell, a Scottish mathematical physicist. James Clerk-Maxwell realized that every color in a picture could be seen by following multi-step processes of taking numerous images via three colored glass plates that include red, blue, & green.
Some British photographers presented hand coloring images to Japan. This practice developed to be widespread & Japanese artists additionally perfected the method. The delicate and refined hand coloring became a significant characteristic of tourist photography.
Autochrome Lumière was discovered by Auguste & Louis Lumière at the beginning of the 1900s. It was a different long-exposure color images technique that utilized "autochrome plates" covered with small dots of multicolor starch, in place of just a single color. Still, plate methods were complex, drawn-out processes that yielded fewer results. 1908, Gabriel-Jonas earned Nobel Prize in Physics for forming a hue color in the image. He used the process that utilized emulsion/color-sensitive on top of a glass plate.

The invention of color photography brought more fun in taking pictures. This way, we have an image with the exact colors they appear to be.

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