Book of the Week
Color Rush
75 Years of Color Photography in America
by Catherine A. Bussard & Lisa Hostetler
Color Rush explores the reasons why color photography
became the norm in popular culture and fine art.
It reveals a deeper story charting from magazine pages to gallery walls,
from advertisements to photojournalism,
and uncovers connections in both artistic and commercial
practices in the United States from 1907 to 1981.
This volume examines many photographers from
the early automatic color used by Stieglitz to Steichen,
to the consuming color of Nickolas Muray and Life magazine,
or the color choices of Porter to Labrot,
ending with the final “explosion of color”
of Egglestone to Cindy Scherman.
In doing so, Color Rush traces a new history that more
fully accounts for color’s pervasive presence today.
A comprehensive chronology with examples
of significant moments and movements mark
the increasing visibility of color photography, and a final
glossary explains technical definitions of photographic practice..
Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America
by Catherine A. Bussard & Lisa Hostetler
published by Aperture, NY
in coproduction with the Milwaukee Art Museum,WI
30 x 25 cm, pp. 279, 70 euro
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