Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron

Photographer, Visual Artist

1837 – 1920

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Who was Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron?

Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron was a French pioneer of color photography. He was born in Langon, Gironde and died in Agen.

After writing an unpublished paper setting forth his basic concepts in 1862, he worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods. In 1868 he patented his ideas and in 1869 he published them in Les couleurs en photographie, solution du problème. It was the discovery of dye sensitation in 1873 by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel which allowed Ducos de Hauron to put his color photography theory into practice.

The most widely reproduced of his surviving color photographs is the View of Agen, an 1877 image of a landscape in southern France, printed by the subtractive assembly method he pioneered. Several different photographs of the view from his attic window, one dated 1874, also survive, as do later views taken in Algeria, still life subjects, reproductions of paintings and art prints, and at least two portraits of uncertain date.

In 1891, he introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print.

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Born
Dec 8, 1837
Langon
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Died
Aug 31, 1920
Agen

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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