“The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.” FactsUseDifficultColorPhotographyEmptyDifficultyPhotographerCaughtStatementsVisualsCaught UpColorfulCombining Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.” WayHas BeensArtTodayCenturyColorPhotographyResearchStrategyPhotographerLandscapeViewersNineteenth CenturyPictorialAmerican Landscape Author:John Pfahl
“The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.” JobsLevelsColorPhotographerAbstraction Author:Joel Sternfeld
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.” KnowsRealMomentsValuesEnjoyMemoriesColorTestsPhotographerGoldenSentimentsBathsTransSplendorPlungeTranquilTrue ValueRecoil Author:Georges Duhamel
“Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.” ColorPhotographerNoisePoisonElectricFuriousHueBebop Author:Walker Evans
“In black and white you suggest, in color you state.” StatesBlackWhiteColorPhotographyPhotographerBlack And WhiteAbsolute CertaintyColor PhotographyMonochromatic Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs
“I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.” ArtistBlackWhiteTechnologySupportColorPhotographerDigitalBlack And WhiteProceduresPlatinumDigital TechnologyColor Black Author:John Sexton