| 1840 |
One year after the official date of the invention of Photography
Sir John Hershel begins to experiment with colour impressions on silver chloride emulsions.
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| 1855 |
Alphonse L. Poitevin describes the principles of the carbro printing process using pigments.
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| 1861 |
James Clerk Maxwell demonstrates a colour projection in London
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| 1862 |
The Frenchman Louis Ducos du Hauron begins
his experimentation with a range of colour processes.
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| 1868 |
Louis Ducos du Hauron demonstrates his first
successful colour pictures and obtains the first patent
of a colour process in photography.
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| 1868 |
Louis Ducos du Hauron demonstrates his first
successful colour pictures and obtains the first patent
of a colour process in photography.
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| 1895 |
Camille Nachet in France sells the first commercially produced
three colour camera. |
| 1907 |
In 1907 Louis Lumiere brought out his autochrome process of colour photography entirely new and of exceptional quality.
Edward Steichen, in New York, had the opportunity of experimenting with this technique before it was put on the market. He was delighted with it and exhibited some of his own autochrome plates in 1907 at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery in New York. |
| 1913 |
Annual production reacheds the rate of one million Autochrome plates. |
| 1932 |
The glass "autochrome" plate is replaced by film. |