Claim: Roger Minick's project "Sightseer", which documented tourists in National Parks, began in black and white but became the photographers first foray into color photography.
Evidence: Roger Laell Minick (born July 13, 1944) is an American photographer widely known for his series of photographs documenting tourists in the National Parks of the United States. The series, called "Sightseer", has been published in numerous books and widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. While the first few images for this project were in black and white, the project soon became Minick's first experience working in color. Minick's best known photo project, the "Sightseer" series, in which he photographed tourists visiting the National Parks and Monuments in the United States, began in 1979.