Photography’s earliest practitioners dreamed of finding a method for reproducing the world around them in color. Some 19th century photographers experimented with chemical formulations aimed at producing color images by direct exposure, while others applied paints and powders to the surfaces of monochrome prints. Vigorous experimentation led to several early color processes, some of which were even patented, but the methods were often impractical, cumbersome and unreliable. This chapter explores early additive color processes as well as later subtractive processes like chromogenic color and the Kodachrome.
This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-10-13-0194.
Thank you for producing these videos, and making them freely available. The George Eastman Museum deserves its reputation as being the organisation preserving photographic history.
I love this series and that Kodak is documenting the history of photography. Thank you very much and may film continue to live on in some form.