# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/levi-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:48:06.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/levi-hill"
name: "Levi Hill"
slug: "levi-hill"
description: "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."
tagline: "American photographer (1816-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Levi_Hill_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1816-02-26"
deathDate: "1865-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.541145333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Лівай Гілл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ليفي هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Hill"
    title: "Levi Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Hill"
    title: "Levi Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Hill"
    title: "Levi Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Hill"
    title: "Levi Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Хилл, Ливай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3501380"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump