For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

A Colorado luminary, photographer Fred Payne Clatworthy’s mastery of the autochrome process brought Colorado’s beauty to audiences throughout the United States in the early 1900s. Clatworthy was the ...

In 1907, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, introduced the first viable method of color photography. Although color photographs had existed, the process was clumsy and complicated. The key ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière revolutionised image-making with Autochrome, the first efficient way of producing colour photographs. [Photo/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL via Getty Images] Auguste and ...

We tend to remember World War I, whose 100 th anniversary will be commemorated this month, in black-and-white. But there were a handful of photographers working during the war in color, using an early ...

For all intents and purposes, photography here in 2024 is digital. Of course chemical photography still exists, and there are a bunch of us who love it for what it is, but even as we hang up our ...

In May 1861, James Clerk Maxwell gave the world a present tied up in a Tartan bow. The Scottish polymath photographed a colorful ribbon through red, blue and green filters then projected the three ...

Around 1900, Auguste Lumiere was beginning to despair of the brother with whom he had patented the moving picture. “You’re wasting your time. You’re taking on the impossible,” he wrote to Louis about ...

Auguste and Louis Lumière never imagined in the early 1900s, when they were trying to solve a problem that had bedeviled the photographers of the black-and-white era for more than 70 years, that ...