Edward Muybridge

Autochrome

"The process used a screen of tiny potato starch grains dyed orange-red, green and violet. Dusted onto a glass plate, the dyed grains were covered with a layer of sensitive panchromatic silver bromide emulsion. As light entered the camera, it was filtered by the dyed grains before it reached the emulsion. While the exposure time was very long, the plate could be processed easily by a photographer familiar with standard darkroom procedures. The result was a unique, realistic, positive color image on glass that required no further printing."

Auguste and Louis Lumière, who also invented the motion picture, announced the invention of the autochrome process, which was the first color photograph. This is of great significance because photographers were only able to replicate the world in black and white and color gave them more of correct representation of reality. Color therefore gave one the freedom to accurately represent reality.

Also, the Lumiere brothers invented the motion picture. The first photo is Muybridge's and appears to be the precursor of the motion picture that the Lumiere brothers invented. Initially, I had no idea how these two photos would relate to each other but it seems cool that Muybridge's relates to the Lumiere brothers in such a profound way.