Reflecting Nature: Chemistry and Comprehensibility in Gabriel Lippmann's “Physical” Method of Photographing Colours (2010)
Mitchell, Daniel Jon (Author)
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 64
Pages: 319--337
The origins of colour photography are typically traced to mid-nineteenth-century `three-colour' processes based on a mixture of three primary colours. At the time, however, images produced by these means were pejoratively labelled `photographs in colours' and not `colour photographs' because they did not result solely from the direct action of light. In 1891, the French physicist Gabriel Lippmann claimed to have developed a direct, `physical' method of colour photography, which the French industrialists Auguste and Louis Lumière subsequently improved. This article charts the rise and fall of so-called `interferometric' colour photography and evaluates Lippmann's suppression of the chemical aspects of his work, in the context of his award of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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