Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (8 December 1837 – 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography.
Personal life
He was born in Langon, Gironde and died in Agen.
Photography
After writing an unpublished paper setting forth his basic concepts in 1862, he worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both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 (French Patent No. 83061) and in 1869 he published them in Les couleurs en photographie, solution du problème. The discovery of dye sensitization by Hermann Wilhelm Vogel in 1873 greatly facilitated the initial three-color analysis on which all of Ducos de Hauron's methods depended.
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. Although others had earlier applied the same principle to drawings or used it to project images onto a screen, he was the first to reproduce stereoscopic photographs in the convenient form of anaglyph prints on paper.
Gallery
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File:Louis Ducos du Hauron - Composition aux dahlias.jpg|Still life with dahlias, 1869
File:Direct Print 1869.jpg|Color print made from three direct photograms, 1869 or 1870<!-- a presentation copy of this bears an early (February?) 1870 date on the mat in DdH's handwriting, may refer to print only, original photography possibly 1869 -->
File:1873 Oil painting Ducos Du Hauron.png|Reproduction of an oil painting, 1873
File:1875 Agen un Faubourg Ducos Du Hauron.png|View of Agen, 1875.
File:1877 March 14 Agen Ducos Du Hauron.jpg|"A hovel in our neighbourhood", Agen, dated 14 March 1877.
Image:Duhauron1877.jpg|View of Agen, France, showing the St. Caprais cathedral, 1877. Heliochrome (multilayer dichromated pigmented gelatin process). George Eastman House
File:1877 Agen Ducos Du Hauron Later print.jpg|A later 20th century print of the Agen photograph made from the original 1877 negatives. George Eastman House
File:1877 Agen Gardens Ducos Du Hauron.png|Garden view in Agen, 1877
File:1870s circa Agen Ducos Du Hauron.jpg|View of Agen, looking southwest, circa 1870s
File:Louis Ducos du Hauron - Still life with rooster - Google Art Project.jpg|Mounted birds, 1879<!-- the date stated by DdH when he donated a copy of it to an institution a few years later. Definitely not 1869. "Still life with rooster" is just someone's latter-day description, not an original title. -->
File:Algeria Ducos du Hauron.png|View of Algeria, 1880s or 1890s
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