An early color photograph produced using chromatic light or color separation techniques.
From Greek 'chroma' (color) + 'photo' (light) + 'graph' (writing/recording). This term emerged in the late 1800s as photographers experimented with capturing color before modern color film.
Before Technicolor and modern color film, photographers used chromophotography—splitting light into colors and recombining them—a technique so complex it made early color photos expensive and rare.
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