13 Facts About Color photography

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Color photography is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors.

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Color photography has been the dominant form of photography since the 1970s, with monochrome photography mostly relegated to niche markets such as art photography.

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Color photography's earliest surviving color prints are "sun prints" of pressed flowers and leaves, each of the three negatives having been made without a camera by exposing the light-sensitive surface to direct sunlight passing first through a color filter and then through the vegetation.

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Color photography identified dyes which variously sensitized for all the previously ineffective colors except true red, to which only a marginal trace of sensitivity could be added.

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Lippmann photography is a way of making a color photograph that relies on Bragg reflection planes in the emulsion to make the colors.

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The most recent use of the additive screen process for non-digital Color photography was in Polachrome, an "instant" 35mm slide film introduced in 1983 and discontinued about twenty years later.

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Color photography began writing a monthly column on color photography for the U S Camera Magazine around 1930.

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In 1940 he published his seminal book Photographing in Color photography, using high quality illustrations to explain his techniques.

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Color photography saw it as a new way to frame the world; a way to experiment with the subjects he photographed and how he conveyed emotion in the photograph.

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Color photography published a book entitled The Art of Color Photography, in which he explained the importance of understanding the "special and often subtle relationships between different colors".

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Color photography described the psychological and emotional power that color can have on the viewer, since certain colors, he argues, can make people feel a certain way.

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Color photography preferred to take pictures mainly using black-and-white film.

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Color photography wrote books about technique, developed the Zone System—which helped determine the optimal exposure and development time for a given photograph—and introduced the idea of "previsualization", which involved the photographer imagining what he wanted his final print to look like before he even took the shot.

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