Capturing the world in color was one of photography's greatest
aspirations from the very beginnings of the medium. When color
photography became a reality with the introduction of the
Autochrome in 1907, prominent photographers such as Alfred
Stieglitz were overjoyed. But they quickly came to reject color
photography as too aligned with human sight. It took decades for
artists to come to understand the creative potential of color, and
only in 1976, when John Szarkowski showed William Eggleston's
photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, did the art world embrace
color. By accepting color's flexibility and emotional
transcendence, Szarkowski and Eggleston transformed photography,
giving the medium equal artistic stature with painting, but also
initiating its demise as an independent art.
The catalogue of a major exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of
American Art, which holds one of the premier collections of
American photography, Color tells, for the first time, the
fascinating story of color's integration into American fine art
photography and how its acceptance revolutionized the practice of
art. Tracing the development of color photography from the first
color photograph in 1851 to digital photography, John Rohrbach
describes photographers' initial rejection of color, their
decades-long debates over what color brings to photography, and how
their gradual acceptance of color released photography from its
status as a second-tier art form. He shows how this absorption of
color instigated wide acceptance of a fundamentally new definition
of photography, one that blends photography's documentary
foundations with the creative flexibility of painting. Sylvie
Penichon offers a succinct survey of the technological advances
that made color in photography a reality and have since marked its
multifaceted development. These texts, illuminated by seventy-five
full-page plates and more than eighty illustrations, make this book
a groundbreaking contribution to photographic studies.
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