Now in its second year, the Chromatic Awards focus on the best color photography across twenty categories. The incredible array of recently announced winners showcase a spectacular collection of ...
Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was an American photographer best known for his pioneering role in the use of color photography. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. Leiter ...
Indeed, color photography had a hard time of it after it was first developed in the mid-19th century, with critics and connoisseurs terming its seductive colors garish as opposed to the supposedly ...
The potato is one of the least colorful of the good Lord’s creations. But somehow, two French inventors figured out how the dud spud could help put color in our photographs using a process they called ...
Color photography was first pioneered in the mid-1800s, but the processes for capturing and reproducing color images were time consuming and difficult. The advent of the Autochrome process, developed ...
A vivid display of Yevonde’s idiosyncratic oeuvre argues for her role as a photographic pioneer. A self-portrait of Yevonde with her Vivex One-Shot camera, from 1937.Credit...Yevonde, via National ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about New York's art gallery system and museum structure. Nov 17, 2016, 10:09am EST Nov 17, 2016, 11:26am EST This article ...
History can be an unreliable narrator. Paul Outerbridge was once a major force in photography, straddling the worlds of commerce and art. He shared European assignments for Vogue with Edward Steichen, ...