The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-27
COLOR pHorocRApuY.

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 All who have kept track of passing events do not need to be told that two of the objects which have been long l sought In connection with ph biography are to take photographs in colors and to take pictures by telegraph. In other words. they wish to be able to take photograph which will show all the coiors and tints of the object taken. and they want to be able to send pic- ture by wire. just as they can send a message. The latter is In some respects the more important object of the two. When an accident, wreck, a murder, or any happening of the sort occurs. 1t would add much to the effectiveness of the account sent to the newspapers if at the same time a picture of the scenes and the persons connected with it could go over the wires with the tele- graphic account so that both could be printed simultaneously.
 But the color photography is also . desideratum that has long been sought by artists. It has been announced at various times that success had been reached. and in recent issue of The Century Magazine there is an illus trated article by MT. Laurivik, from which we take this extract:
 Though art bodies and even paint,
 were wiling na6s s a@one the arss and even to admit that sn some of this work there was beauty. a grace, and 9 truths different from what had oer
 ey stiil postulated that
 color photoEraphy that appeared from
 time to time only served to discredit
 ensr eHs p8ssilSse Ssins aehieved @ in this hsid of ph biography. That was only yester- day. Today color photography is an ing ing efforts of Antoine Lumiere and his
 chromatic plate records the most deli- cate shades of color with simplicity
 6 During h the last eighteen mopths. those on the inside in the photographic world have had intimations that Lu- important difficulties in the way of a truthful representation of the color of natural objects and that the process
 was soon n.t to be made nn9xn t to the e met with the usual skepticism on the part of even the most expert and ad- vanced Photographers. But when the last June in Paris. the doubtjng Thow- ases became enthusiastic belsevers. After fourteen years of experimenting Lumiere and his sons have finally suc-
 faithfully reproduce with the most ex- auisite subtletv the Eradatiens of color in nature. and to France must be &C.,
 ted to the world a discovery in the scientific application of light second in
 importance only to the initial discovery of Daguarre."
 That sounds. encouraging, and per- haps 1t may be that in the future the wonderful art of photography will have received still smother addition. For it is wonderful, when we come to think of it. The elders among us can remember the daguerreotypes of for mer days. It was a slow and tedious process. and though an accurate pic- ture could thus be taken 1t lacked mudh of being without faults and disadvant- ages. Now the picture can be tax en fin the flash of an eye, accurate and per- feet in all its details except in the one element of color. If that can be made as completely successful as the other details now are, there seems little else to be desired. so far as stationary pie lures are concerned. A photograph that will correctly set forth all the col ors of the original will be something to boast of and the indications are that Fit may not be long coming. It may not come at a dash, and the process may
 be expensive. but the main. point is a sure enough photograph in colors.