Color rush : American color photography from Stieglitz to Sherman

Author(s)

    • Bussard, Katherine A.
    • Hostetler, Lisa
    • Schapiro, Alissa
    • Deveney, Grace
    • Raz-Russo, Michal

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Color rush : American color photography from Stieglitz to Sherman

Katherine A. Bussard & Lisa Hostetler ; with contributions by Alissa Schapiro, Grace Deveney, & Michal Raz-Russo

Aperture, c2013

  • : hardcover

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Exhibition catalogue

"Copublished with the Milwaukee Art Museum on the occasion of the exhibition, Color rush : 75 years of color photography in America on view February 22 to May 19, 2013."--Colophon

Includes index

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Today color photography is so ubiquitous that it's hard to believe there was a time when this was not the case. Color Rush: Seventy-five Years of Color Photography in America explores the developments that led us to this point, looking at the way color photographs circulated and appeared at the time of their making. From magazine pages to gallery walls, from advertisements to photojournalism, Color Rush charts the history of color photography in the United States from the moment it became available as a mass medium to the moment when it no longer seemed an unusual choice for artists. The book begins with the 1907 unveiling of autochrome, the first commercially available color process, and continues up through the 1981 landmark survey show and book, The New Color Photography, which hailed the widespread acceptance of color photography in contemporary art. In the intervening years, color photography captured the popular imagination through its visibility in magazines like Life and Vogue, as well as through its accessibility in the marketplace thanks to companies like Kodak. Often in photo histories color is presented as having arrived fully formed in the 1970s; this book reveals a deeper story and uncovers connections in both artistic and commercial practices. A comprehensive chronology and examples of significant moments and movements mark the increasing visibility of color photography. Color Rush brings together Ansel Adams and William Eggleston, Eliot Porter and Cindy Sherman, Edward Steichen and Stephen Shore, and examines them in a fresh context paying particular attention to color photography's translation onto the printed page. In doing so, it traces a new history that more fully accounts for color's pervasive presence today.

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