Alternative color exposure and printing processes

From the very start of photography and the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, the search for "realistic" color began. Daguerre even stated that the only feature needed to finish his revolutionary invention was naturalistic color. Alexander-Edmond Becquerel, is considered by many historians to be the founding father of color photography for achieving natural, albeit impermanent, color direct positive Daguerreotypes in 1848. In 1850, a daguerreotypist and minister, Levi L. Hill, of rural New York, made some Daguerreotypes, also known as hillotypes, that produced different colors on one image, but his process, which he called heliocromy, was complex, dangerous, and not necessarily "naturalistic"