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Book SynopsisThe first book that addresses color in photography from the beginning of the medium to the present, this landmark copublication with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art explores how color transformed photography into today’s dominant artistic form.
Trade Review"The invention of the Autochrome in 1907 ushered color into photography and excited artists at the time. But then something strange happened: they recoiled from color, feeling it was too similar to the way we see the world. If the burgeoning medium of photography couldn't provide something different than what each of us could see using our own eyes, what was it good for? Color: American Photography Transformed tracks the curious history of color in American photography and is a sumptuous beauty to hold in the hand, with images from Walker Evans, Irving Penn and Ansel Adams, among many others." - Kirkus "This volume examines in detail what colour brings to photography and its connections to other arts, particularly painting. Expansive in focus and attractively presented 25-30 full-page reproductions illuminate each essay. An overview of technical advances and an impressive bibliography conclude the book. Entertaining, informative and vivid in its examples, this new scholarly interpretation is a valuable work... Summing Up: Highly recommended" - Choice "John Rohrbach's terrific book, copiously illustrated and footnoted, significantly enlarges the scope of this history and our understanding. The four chapters - "Inventing Color Photography"; "Defining Color, 1936-1970"; "Using Color, 1970-1990"; and "Interrogating Color, 1990-2010" - offer a sweeping view of multi-hued photography as a problem that bedeviled - and a mirage that beguiled - generations of inventors, artists, critics, and businesses." - Collector Daily
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Inventing Color Photography
- Chapter Two: Defining Color, 1936–1970
- Chapter Three: Using Color, 1970–1990
- Chapter Four: Interrogating Color, 1990–2010
By John Rohrbach
- From Potatoes to Pixels: A Short Technical History of Color Photography
By Sylvie Pénichon
- List of Plates
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
