There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (Ia) and (a) a sensitizing dye containing a sulfonamide group, (b) negative-type internal latent image-type silver halide grains chemically sensitized to a defined depth from the surface, (c) grains each having a defined spectral sensitivity distribution and a DIR-hydroquinone, (d) a monodisperse silver halide emulsion, (e) non-photosensitive silver halide emulsion wherein the inside or the surface of grains is fogged, (f) a colloidal silver, or (g) a DIR-hydroquinone:NH- or -CH(R3)-, Zb and Zc each represent -C(R4)= or -N=, R1, R2, and R3 each represent an electron-attracting group wherein the Hammett substituent constant sigma p value is 0.20 or more, provided that the sum of the sigma p value of R1 and the sigma p value of R2 is 0.65 or more, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, if there are two groups R4 in the formula, they may be the same or different, and X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine color-developing agent, provided that R1, R2, R3, R4, or X may be a divalent group to form a homopolymer or a copolymer by bonding with a dimer or higher polymer or polymer chain.
Silver halide color photographic material