Didn’t the world used to be a bit more colorful? Maybe it’s because of the so-called current world situation that everything seems a bit gray and heavy. Diagnosis: Acute lack of color. Treatment: Color galore, served with an extra dose of surrealism. In the book “Chromotherapia. Feel Good Color Photography”, wild color compositions shine out at you. Our mood lifts with every page we turn, until we realize: It’s not all that bad after all.
Chromotherapia. Feel Good Color Photography
Color photography has always been taken a little less seriously than its serious big sister, black and white photography – wrongly so. It takes talent to find the right color composition and to have the courage to use bright colors. The two curators Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdzé are well aware of this. They have rummaged through the past decades and present one color explosion after another on 208 pages. Works by Miles Aldridge, Martin Parr and Adrienne Raquel, among others, shake us up and put us in a good mood. The book is accompanied by an exhibition of the same name at the Villa Medici in Rome, which traces the history of color photography.
Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Stourdzé, “Chromotherapia. Feel Good Color Photography”, Damiani, ca. 55.-, damianibooks.com
That was just a small foretaste. You can grab the entire color explosion here.
Photos: © Damiani
Looking for some peace and quiet after a full load of color? Kate Sterlin’s black and white photographs evoke just as many emotions as the brightest tones.
