World's first color photograph

[gr82bart]

Interesting read
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-worlds-first-color-photograph

Regards, Art

 

[AgX]

A article that has been badly researched for.

The interesting thing about this photograph is that in those days there still was no spectrally sensitized emulsion, but still the (composite) photograph yielded an image that rendered a true colour reproduction. Something that evoked some discussion in the science world thereafter...

 

[removed account4]

hey art

i think hypolite bayard took the first color photographs in the early 1840s
he reproduced his methods and madness to the academy of arts and sciences
( as everyone and their cousin did back then ) and everyone though he was a
scam artist ... he also discovered a direct positive process but the world was
going ga ga over daguerreotypes and he was overlooked
( and his rejection lead to his self portrait as being a drowned man )

 

[J 3]

I think the controversy over the Sutton photo was that the emulsion used wasn't sensitive enough to red light to explain the reds in the photo, not that it was fully ortho-chromatic. Later it turned out that the red filter used was transparent to UV and the red dye of the ribbon reflected UV hence the color, which silenced the claims of fraud. Could be wrong though.

 

[J 3]

The mention of panchromatic plates becoming available in 1906 probably means commercially available. Panchromatic emulsions existed prior to this, for instance on the first color Lippmann plates shown to the world in the early 1890's (very impractical and superseded by the commercially successful autochrome process released in 1907).

 

[Europan]

As far as I know did Max Schultze first publish a treatment of the human eye’s colour vision in 1866, Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina.

 

[J 3]

I'm trying to find a reference to Hyppolite Bayard inventing color photography, but came up empty. He did come up with a rival process to the daguerreotype (1839) which he claims to have invented prior (no independent confirmation that I know of). His process seems to be a direct positive variant of Fox Talbot's process. This article shows one of the original images (quite faint now) http://arthistoryunstuffed.com/hipployte-bayard-1801-1887/ These claims for first photographic process should probably read 'first practical photograph' as the first photographs depending on definition were tars or resins hardened in camera over hours of exposure time. Wiki lists 12 min as a typical exposure time for Bayard's process. As best I can tell this was faster than Daguerreotype was in 1839, but slower than the process was just 3 years later in 1842 after being improved (adding bromine I think). Anyhow very interesting. I wonder if Bayard really was first.

The first single image color photograph (IE all colors recorded at the same time on the same plate) that I know of were produced by Levi Hill in the early 1850's (Hillotype, a daguerreotype variant). These were claimed to be frauds at the time, but modern investigations revealed that 1) Hill's process did produce colors, just not a full spectrum 2) Hill did add dye to enhance the effect, especially to reproduce greens 3) The process was exceedingly slow, and involved a lot of dangerous chemicals.

 

[MattKing]

I don't know about the claim in the article with respect to "first", but I really like the poetry:

“These fugitive impressions,/ Must be transformed by mental acts,/ To permanent possessions.”