Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour
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Cartier-Bresson had deep misgivings about colour film as an expressive medium. He could not resist a damning conclusion: “A colour photograph reproduced in a magazine or semi-luxury edition sometimes gives the impression of an anatomical dissection which has been badly bungled.” Nevertheless, despite his personal scepticism, he admitted that colour... Read More
Cartier-Bresson had deep misgivings about colour film as an expressive medium. He could not resist a damning conclusion: “A colour photograph reproduced in a magazine or semi-luxury edition sometimes gives the impression of an anatomical dissection which has been badly bungled.” Nevertheless, despite his personal scepticism, he admitted that colour photography was in its infancy, and justified further experimentation. It required “a new attitude of mind, an approach different than that which is appropriate for black and white… We must continue to try to feel our way.”
Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour features the work of a select number of photographers whose commitment to expression in colour was (or is) wholehearted, sophisticated, and measures up to Cartier-Bresson’s requirement that content and form were in perfect balance. Some were his contemporaries, even, like Ernst Haas, friends; others, like Fred Herzog in Vancouver, knew Cartier-Bresson across a vast distance, essentially through his seminal books. Others were junior colleagues, like Harry Gruyaert, who found themselves debating colour ferociously with the master. And still others, like Andy Freeberg or Carolyn Drake, never knew the man first hand, but feel the influence of his example.
Published in 2012 on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Somerset House.
Condition: Excellent, only slight damage is a crease to the inner back cover of the dust jacket