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Fox

ca. 1870
Not on view
Ducos du Hauron, an amateur physicist and artist, began experimenting with color photography in the early 1860s. By 1868 he had patented a three-color process that he improved upon and published the following year in the treatise Les Couleurs en photographie: solution du problème. His method involved exposing negatives through green, orange-red, and blue-violet filters and then making positives of them on three sheets of gelatin incorporating carbon pigments of primary colors. When superimposed, the three layers made a single color photograph: a technique that is essentially the basis of modern color processes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fox
  • Artist: Louis Ducos Du Hauron (French, 1837–1920)
  • Date: ca. 1870
  • Medium: Three-color assembly print
  • Dimensions: 24.4 x 22.4 cm (9 5/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.214
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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