There was a time when color photography wasn’t taken seriously. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was considered amateurish, good for holiday snaps and advertisements at best. It had no place in the art ...

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was an American photographer best known for his pioneering role in the use of color photography. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. Leiter ...

Indeed, color photography had a hard time of it after it was first developed in the mid-19th century, with critics and connoisseurs terming its seductive colors garish as opposed to the supposedly ...

Now in its second year, the Chromatic Awards focus on the best color photography across twenty categories. The incredible array of recently announced winners showcase a spectacular collection of ...

Keld Helmer-Petersen, “Untitled” (1948), from the series ‘122 Color Photographs,’ Lambda print (© Keld Helmer-Petersen, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York) In these photos — shot between 1941 and ...

The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...

History can be an unreliable narrator. Paul Outerbridge was once a major force in photography, straddling the worlds of commerce and art. He shared European assignments for Vogue with Edward Steichen, ...

Like the game itself, the images of Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game on Oct. 8, 1956 are iconic—and in black and white. The photographs of Larsen’s last pitch and Yogi Berra’s joyous leap into ...

Capturing the first underwater color photographs was no mean feat and involved powerful explosives as well as hours and hours of waiting. Fish swim over a small head of brain coral and before massive ...