Materiality of color in photography and film
Since the beginnings of cinematography, film has been a colorful medium and a colorful art form. Over the course of film history, more than 230 color film processes have been developed, many of them closely linked to photography. Both media institutionalized numerous techniques such as hand and stencil coloring as well as various printing and raster processes. In addition to this fundamental connection between the technical color systems, intermedial exchange processes of color attribution and aesthetics can be observed between film and photography.
In addition to aspects of color as a material in photography and film, Color Mania also examines the relationship between historical film colors and today's photography.
Works by contemporary photographers and artists who deal with technical and cultural-theoretical aspects of the material color bring the connections to life. Aesthetic and technical parallels are the focus of thematic clusters that include fashion and identity, abstraction and experimentation, politics, exoticism and travel.
The publication contains a general introduction to color in film and photography (technique, materiality, aesthetics) as well as a series of short essays that examine specific aspects in more detail. An extensive illustration section illustrates the texts and color systems and continues the aesthetic experience of the various processes and exhibits from the exhibition in book form.
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Author: Barbara Flückiger, Eva Hielscher, Nadine Wietlisbach
Number of pages: 240 pages, 122 illustrations
Published: 30.10.2019
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Type: Softcover
Language: German
