“Lippmann plates are like the bridge between holography and photography,” he explains. “They’re like little gems. They turn on and off and there’s something kind of magical about it—kind of like ...

It is often said that before air travel our skies were bluer yet how, in the 21st century, could we ever know what light and colors were like one hundred years ago? Recently, a group of researchers ...

Scientists have re-examined the creations of one of the earliest color photographers, Gabriel Lippmann, who used no pigments or dyes of any kind in his work. They sought to identify the original ...

A group of researchers from the EPFL Audiovisual Communications Laboratory were allowed to study some of the very first color photographs ever produced. The photos are typically locked in the vaults ...

THE original method of photography in colour proposed by M. G. Lippmann was based on the production of interference fringes in the photographic plate, and had the disadvantages of requiring very ...

EPFL researchers have shed new light on one of the earliest color photography techniques, G. Lippmann's Nobel Prize–winning multispectral imaging method. It is often said that before air travel our ...