Experiment in Three Color Carbon,

ca 1910–11

Although color photography was not widely adopted until the mid-twentieth century, artists had started experimenting with it as early as the 1840s. In the colorcarbon process used by Anderson to make this image, three negatives are simultaneously produced through red, green, and blue filters. These negatives are then used to make three separate prints with cyan, magenta, and yellow pigments. These prints are superimposed onto a final support to create a full-color picture. Because Anderson slightly misaligned the layers, the final print shows “color fringing,” most notably around the hair of the woman seen from behind.