Portugal celebrated World Photography Day with a look at the history of color in images. Before pixels and photographic paper, the popularization of color photographs relied on unlikely materials: potato starch and glass. Taking a color photograph today is a simple task, accessible to anyone, but the same did not apply to the first permanent images that escaped black and white.
Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière became pioneers of modern cinema when they patented, in 1903, the first color photography process considered practical enough to achieve commercial success. The inventors of the cinematograph, a device that worked on its own and simultaneously to film and project images, were thus responsible for a revolution in the way the world was captured and shared.
