Louis Ducos du Hauron
Louis Ducos du Hauron (born December 8, 1837 in Langon , Gironde department , † December 31, 1920 in Agen ) was a French pioneer of color photography .
As early as 1862 he invented several methods of taking color photographs with both additive ( red-green-blue ) and subtractive (cyan-magenta-yellow) color mixing . In 1868 he had several methods patented . In 1869 he published his book Les couleurs en photographie . His color photograph of the city of Agen is one of the first color photographs using the subtractive method.
He presented the first color pigment prints based on the principle of subtractive color mixing: if you have taken three negatives through red, blue and green filters (see color filters ), transparencies produced from them show the original colors, if you combine them with the respective complementary colors blue-green, yellow and Purple tones and superimposed.
At the same time, Charles Cros also presented a description of a similar procedure to the Société française de photographie . Du Hauron and Cros then worked together. Since 1960 Hauron has given its name to Hauron Peak , a mountain in the Antarctic.
Composition aux dahlias (Composition with Dahlias), 1869
Image taken by Agen , 1877
Untitled (still life with rooster), 1879
literature
- Brian Coe: Color Photography. The first hundred years 1840-1940. Ash & Grant, 1978, ISBN 0-904069-24-9 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ducos du Hauron, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French color photography pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langon , Gironde department |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1920 |
| Place of death | Agen |