There's a great little article on the history and timeline of color Photography in Wikipedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography
Colour photography takes colour pictures and black and white photography take black and white pictures
There are various places where you can find photography tutorials online. Silver Light provides free photography tutorials and an introduction to photography.
William Eglleston first Photographer to get colour photography into a major Art museum(MOM)and bring Photography particularly colour kicking and screaming into the Art world
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A. Spectros has written: 'Colour photography'
Arthur Payne has written: 'Practical orthochromatic photography' -- subject(s): Orthochromatic Photography, Photography, Orthochromatic 'A colour-sensitive collodion process'
G. L. Wakefield has written: 'An introduction to photography'
J. Marchington has written: 'An introduction to bird and wildlife photography'
Edward S. Bomback has written: 'How to use your camera' 'Table-tops and titles in colour' 'Portrait manual' 'Manual of colour photography' -- subject(s): Color photography
David P. Paine has written: 'Introduction to aerial photography for natural resource management' 'Aerial photography and image interpretation for resource management' -- subject(s): Aerial photography, Aerial photography in forestry, Photographic interpretation 'Aerial photography and image interpretation' -- subject(s): Aerial photography, Aerial photography in forestry, Photographic interpretation
Rheostat. Dimming by rheostat changes the colour temperature of the light
A. E. Woolley has written: 'Creative 35mm techniques' 'Photography: a practical and creative introduction' -- subject(s): Photography 'Camera journalism; reporting with photographs' 'Photographic lighting' -- subject(s): Lighting and posing, Portrait photography