James Clerk Maxwell is credited with creating the first color photograph in 1861, having Thomas Sutton photograph a tartan ribbon through red, green, and blue filters and projecting the three images simultaneously.
Sources
- History of photography | History, Inventions, Artists, & Facts - Britannica (britannica.com)
- http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/html/first_colour_photographic_image.html (clerkmaxwellfoundation.org)
- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-worlds-first-color-photograph (artsy.net)
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