Color mania : the material of color in photography and film

Flückiger, Barbara, (editor.). Hielscher, Eva, (editor.). Wietlisbach, Nadine, (editor.). Beutler, Michelle, (contributor.). Fotomuseum Winterthur, (host institution.).

Summary: "Since the earliest days of cinema, film has been a colorful medium and art form. More than 230 film color processes have been devised in the course of film history, often in close connection with photography. In this regard, both media institutionalized numerous techniques such as hand and stencil coloring as well as printing and halftone processes. Apart from these fundamental connections in terms of the technology of color processes, film and photography also share and exchange color attributions and aesthetics. This publication highlights material aspects of color in photography and film, while also investigating the relationship of historical film colors and present-day photography. Works of contemporary photographers and artists who reflect on technological and culture-theoretical aspects of the material of color underline these relations. Thematic clusters focus on aesthetic and technological parallels, including fashion and identity, abstraction and experiment, politics, exoticism, and travel. Color Mania contains a general introduction to color in film and photography (technique, materiality, aesthetics) as well as a series of short essays that take a closer look at specific aspects. An extensive image section illustrates the texts and color systems and continues the aesthetic experience of the various processes and objects in book form. Exhibition: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (07.09. - 24.11.2019)"--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 3037786078
ISBN: 9783037786079
Physical Description: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Winterthur [Switzerland] : Fotomuseum Winterthur ; [Zürich, Switzerland] : Lars Müller Publishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237).
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface / Barbara Flueckiger, Eva Hielscher, and Nadine Wietlisbach -- Color mania: the material of color in photography and film : exhibition and publication / Eva Hielscher 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 colors in Roald Amundsen's films, photographs, and writings / Eirik Frisvold Hanssen -- Obsessions between Orient and Occident : on the construction and imagination of "exotic" worlds in silent film / Evelyn Echle -- Tales of cloud fabrics and breathing forms : artistic research into early film colors and alternative film histories in the work of 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 beauty 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 representation of hallucinogenic vision in various ranges of color / Bregt Lameris -- Light and shadow : aesthetics in the chromogenic color film of the 1970s / Joëlle 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, Giorgio Trumpy, and Martin Weiss in conversation with Simon Spiegel.
Exhibitions Note:	On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Fotomuseum Winterthur, September 7 - November 24, 2019.