# Levi Hill

> Levi Hill was an American minister in upstate New York who claimed in 1851 that he had invented a color photographic process. Borrowing terms previously introduced in France, Hill called his process "heliochromy" and the photographs that it produced "heliochromes", but by analogy to the naming of the then-current daguerreotype process after its inventor Louis Daguerre, Hill's color photographs were soon being called "Hillotypes". Hill's work was met with skepticism during his lifetime, then for more than a hundred years after his death histories of photography routinely dismissed it as a complete fraud. Later researchers found that his very difficult process did in fact have a limited ability to reproduce the colors of nature.

*American photographer (1816-1865)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1816-02-26
- **Died:** 1865-02-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Sources
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- [Levi Hill](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Hill)
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3501380)

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