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History of Color Development

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The early history of color photography has been summarized in Friedman’s book [1]. In the present section, we shall focus our attention on the history of couplers and color developers, since they are directly related to modem color photography.

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Fujita, S. (2004). History of Color Development. In: Organic Chemistry of Photography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09130-2_8

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