color photography

Non-monochrome picture-taking

Color photography is photography that reproduces the colors of a scene, as distinguished from black-and-white photography.

The term appears most often in historical contexts, since color has been the default for decades: The exhibition traces the evolution of color photography from early hand-tinted prints to digital imaging.

In artistic contexts, shooting in color versus black-and-white remains a deliberate choice.

Opposites
chromatic representation

color photographyblack and white

Without middle ground

monochrome · duotone

technological era

color photographydaguerreotype

First commercial photography method

tintype · early photography

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