"A fascinating insight into the ways in which early practitioners of photography and art historians and philosophers more generally thought about the importance of color in the 19th century."
Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths University, UK 

"An extremely useful book for students – both undergraduate and graduate students taking History of Photography courses, and those taking broader based courses (especially as a graduate level) on Victorian Visual Culture"
Kate Flint, University of Southern California, USA

"In returning us directly to the nineteenth century desires, anxieties and aspirations that shaped the debate around colour and photography, this robust and imaginative anthology complicates the categories and assumptions through which photography has been thought about - monochrome, black and white and colour. With its highly informative introduction that positions the nineteenth century in wider debates about vision, colour and their moral implications, this rich volume has much to teach all of us."
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, Photographic History, De Montfort University, UK,

"By bringing together a diverse collection of writings about color in relation to photography, and placing neglected texts alongside more familiar ones, this wonderfully rich book reveals the buried traces of color in the early history of the medium. Smith's introductory essay is a path-breaking contribution."
Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University, USA,