Color Mania

The Material of Color in Photography and Film

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Edited by Barbara Flückiger, Eva Hielscher and Nadine Wietlisbach

Type: Studies
Subject: Technique > Aesthetics
Keywords: color, technique
Publishing date: 2019
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Collection: Fotomuseum Winterthur
Language: English

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Paperback • 240 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

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978-3-03778-607-9

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Book Presentation:
An investigation into the material aspects of color in photography and film and the relationship between historical film colors and present-day photography

More than 230 film color processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in connection with photography. Both mediums institutionalized the techniques of hand and stencil coloring as well as toning. Printing methods such as the Pinatype or Technicolor, and screen processes like the Autochrome or Dufaycolor were initially developed in the context of still photography before being used in motion pictures in the 1920s.

This publication highlights material aspects of color in photography and film, while also investigating the relationship of historical film colors and present-day photography.

Alongside film stills from the likes of Godard and Lynch, works by contemporary photographers and artists--Dunja Evers, Raphael Hefti, Alexandra Navratil and others--reflect on technological and culture-theoretical aspects of the material of color. Thematic clusters focus on aesthetic and technological parallels, including fashion and identity, abstraction and experiment, politics, exoticism and travel.

Contents:
Preface - Barbara Flueckiger, Eva Hilscher and Nadine Wietlisbach
Color Mania: The Material of Color in Photography and Film Exhibition and Publication - Eva Hilscher and Nadine Wietlisbach
Film Colors: Materiality, Technology, Aesthetics - Barbara Flueckiger
(In)Visible Color: Plea for a History of Color Photography - Thilo Koenig
Continually Oscillating: Dunja Evers between Photography, Film and Painting - Franziska Kunze
Polar Colorsin Roald Amundsen's Films, Photographs and Writing - Eirik Frisvold Hanssen
Obsessions between Orient and Occident: On teh Construction and Imagination of "Exotic" Worlds in Silent Film - Evelyn Echle
Tales of Cloud Fabrics and Breathing Forms: Artistic Reasearch into Early Film Colors and Alternative Film Histories in the Work Alexandra Navratil - Eva Hielscher
Such (Dye-)Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Material Interactions between the Photography, Film and Fashion Industries - Olivia Kristina Stutz
Tinting and Toning: The Luminous Beaty of Chemistry From Silent to Sound Film - Ulrich Ruedel
Blue Sliding into Black: Photograms between Material Experiment and Expressive Painterly Gesture - Nadine Wietlisbach
Images du Monde Visionnaire: The Representationof HallucinogenicVision in Various Ranges of Colour - Bregt Lameris
Light and Shadow: Aesthetics in the Chromogenic Color Film of the 1970s - Joelle Kost
Color Floating in Space: Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites - Mona Schubert
Avant-Gardist Colors in a Political Tug-of-War: Gasparcolor between Art and Fascism - Noemi Daugaard
Standardizing Color Film: Technicolor No. IV and Agfacolor during the 1940s - Michelle Beutler
Agfacolor in (Inter)National Competition - Josephine Diecke
"The Digitization of Analogue Colors Is Extremely Complex" - David Pfluger, Georgio Trumpy, and Martin Weiss, in conversation with Simn Spiegel
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