According to historical records, the earliest color photos taken in China should be the photos of founding ceremony on 1949+ 10/0/day when New China was founded.

However, in May, 2004, Kunming exhibited 250 color photos, which were appraised by experts from the National Museum of China, and were the earliest color photos found in China so far.

These photos were taken in Kunming, China, on 1944 by two American soldiers who assisted China, Mr. Clinton Mi Le and Mr. Robert Burcher. Now they have been given to the National Museum of China for free.

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In A.D. 180 1 year, British physicist Thomas Young published his research on color, saying that human eyes can have three kinds of color perception of visual nerve: red light, green light and purple light.

In addition, it is said that the three basic colors of red, green and purple are mixed together in nature, so people can feel many different colors.

In A.D. 1860, British Maxwell studied color negative film, took the lead in taking photos of three primary colors, namely red, green and blue, and then superimposed the photos to form a color image.

This is the additive method, which leads to the principle that color TVs can display colors now. From then on, world photography began to move from black and white to color, which is the rise of the era of color photography.

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