Colour Photography

Definition of Colour Photography - 

Any of various processes of color photography wherein three primary colors (as blue-violet, green, and red in the additive process or magenta, yellow, and blue-green in the subtractive process) are used to produce the colour of the subject photographed. 

The first colour photograph made by the three-colour method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton. The subject is a coloured ribbon, described as a 'tartan ribbon'. 

The comparison between colour and black and white is that black and leaves you guessing and with colour, it is easier to analyse and understand the meaning of the actual picture that has been produced.