Hand-coloring The History of
Photography
Created by Allison Jarek Photography was invented in 1837 but it was another 70 years until the creation of color photography in 1907!
Until then, artists had to hand color their black and white photographs with paint, pigment, and pencils.
Try out hand-coloring with these famous photographs from history! by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1827 View from the Window at Le Gras Image 1:
Louis Daguerre, 1838 View of the Boulevard du Temple by Image 2:
Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions by Anna Atkins, 1843 Image 3: Cyanotype from the book
by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1844 The Open Door Image 4: Image 5: Portrait of Louis Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot, 1844
Image 6: Projection of a tartan ribbon by James Clerk Maxwell, 1861
, by Eadweard Muybridge, 1872-1875 Plate 626, Animal locomotion Image 7: Image 8: Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1875 Image 9: The Steerage by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
by anonymous, 1910, Autochrome process created by Lumiere Brothers in 1907 Couple With A Motor Car Image 10: Image Information
● Image 1: View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1827. It is considered the first permanent photographic image ever created.
● Image 2: View of the Boulevard du Temple, a daguerreotype made by Louis Daguerre in 1838. It is believed to be the first photograph to include a person.
● Image 3: Cyanotype from the book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions by Anna Atkins, 1843. This is widely considered to be the first book to feature photographs.
● Image 4: The Open Door by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1844. Talbot invented the Calotype photography process around 1834-1841. Image Information
● Image 5: Portrait of Louis Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot, 1844. Louis Daguerre is credited as one of the inventors of photography. He created the Daguerreotype process in 1837.
● Image 6: Projection of a tartan ribbon by James Clerk Maxwell, 1861. Maxwell discovered a way to project full color images through red, green, and blue light. This projected image of a plaid ribbon was created by overlaying three separate photographs that were taken using red, green, and blue filters.
● Image 7: Plate 626, Animal locomotion, by Eadweard Muybridge, 1872-1875. Muybridge used photography to create motion studies of people and humans. These important works were published in a book titled Animal Locomotion.
● Image 8: Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1875. Cameron was known for her painterly photographs that often explored literary themes. Image Information
● Image 9: The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz, 1907. Alfred Stieglitz was important in the promotion of photography as a fine art in America.
● Image 10: Couple With A Motor Car by anonymous, 1910, Autochrome process created by Lumiere Brothers in 1907. Using the red, green, blue color system discovered by James Clerk Maxwell, the Lumiere brothers created Autochrome plates. Autochromes were glass plates covered in colored grains of potato starch. This process allowed for color photographs to be captured for the first time and was the first commercial color film.
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