Frederic Eugene Ives

Frederic Eugene Ives, (born Feb. 17, 1856, Litchfield, Conn., U.S.—died May 27, 1937, Philadelphia), American photographer and inventor. He pioneered a form of color photography in which three separate black-and-white images were made using a red, green, and blue filter. When transparent positives were viewed through a chromoscope, which used red, green, and blue filters and reflectors, the images were recombined into a full-color image. Another way to view the colored image was to project and superimpose the three black-and-white images using a triple lantern that illuminated each image with the correct light.