Photographic recording material with arylazocyanoacetic ester dye releasers

In a color photographic recording material for the production of colored images by the dye diffusion transfer process, comprising at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer and associated thereto a nondiffusing color-providing compound, capable of releasing under the conditions of alkaline development and as a function of the development of the silver halide emulsion layer, a diffusible azo dye which can complex with metal ions, the improvement according to which the released azo dye in one of its tautomeric forms corresponds to the following general formula II ##STR23## wherein R.sup.1 represents alkyl, alkenyl or cycloalkyl having up to 8 carbon atoms,

• Z represents a radical required for completing a benzene or naphthalene ring;
• and
• L represents a substituent having a group which results from the splitting from a carrier radical.