Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, presented the first color photograph at the Royal Institution. He and photographer Thomas Sutton created the image of a tartan ribbon by taking three separate black and white photographs through red, green, and blue filters and then combining them. This method, based on Maxwell's earlier work, demonstrated that any color could be created by mixing the three primary colors of light. More
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