{"id":35166,"date":"2020-04-02T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=35166"},"modified":"2020-04-02T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:39:19","slug":"the-first-color-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2020\/04\/02\/the-first-color-image\/","title":{"rendered":"The first color image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>An update.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In 2012 I wrote of the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/06\/11\/the-first-color-picture\/ target=_blank>first color picture<\/a>, taken by James Clark Maxwell in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>That information now appears incorrect, as <a href=https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/design\/a31992304\/science-first-color-photograph\/ target=_blank>this article<\/a> explains.  French scientist Edmond Becquerel appears to have beaten Maxwell to the punch, if you accept the below is a photograph &#8211; a stretch:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Becquerel.png\"  alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Becquerel&#8217;s image.<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update. In 2012 I wrote of the first color picture, taken by James Clark Maxwell in 1861. That information now appears incorrect, as this article explains. French scientist Edmond Becquerel appears to have beaten Maxwell to the punch, if you accept the below is a photograph &#8211; a stretch: Becquerel&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35168,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions\/35168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}