Item #23531 La triplice photographique des couleurs et l'imprimerie : système de photochromographie Louis Ducos du Hauron : nouvelles descriptions théoriques et pratiques mises en rapport avec les progrès généraux de la photographie, de l'optique et des diverses sortes de phototirages soit industriels, soit d'amateurs. Alcide Ducos Du Hauron, Louis Ducos Du Hauron.
La triplice photographique des couleurs et l'imprimerie : système de photochromographie Louis Ducos du Hauron : nouvelles descriptions théoriques et pratiques mises en rapport avec les progrès généraux de la photographie, de l'optique et des diverses sortes de phototirages soit industriels, soit d'amateurs

La triplice photographique des couleurs et l'imprimerie : système de photochromographie Louis Ducos du Hauron : nouvelles descriptions théoriques et pratiques mises en rapport avec les progrès généraux de la photographie, de l'optique et des diverses sortes de phototirages soit industriels, soit d'amateurs

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie 1897. [4], 459 pages. Half calf over marbled boards. 5 x 7 3/8 inches. Light browning to pages. Near Fine. Boards. [23531]


Alcide was Louis Ducos du Hauron's brother and they worked together experimenting with color photography. Louis was a pioneer in the development of color photography who, while largely unknown today, predicted subtractive color processes in 1869 even though the ability to demonstrate his ideas didn't exist at the time he recorded his ideas. "The technical progress of photography was advanced by the hard work of pioneers such as Louis Ducos du Hauron who researched and developed the three-colour processes..." (Gernsheim and Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, p. 155)

In 1897, the year this book was published, du Hauron proposed a "tripack" system which was not fully realized because of technical problems until 1935 when Kodak introduced Kodachrome (the first modern "integral tripack" according to Wikipedia). The title translates roughly to: "Triplice color photographic and printing: system photochromographie Louis Ducos du Hauron: new theoretical descriptions and practices related to the overall progress of photography, optics and various kinds of phototirages either industrial, or of amateurs".

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