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 ...
There’s something mesmerizing about seeing history come to life in color. These rare historical photos, some of the oldest color images ever captured, offer a vivid glimpse into a world that existed ...
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 ...
Keld Helmer-Petersen, “Untitled” (1948), from the series ‘122 Color Photographs,’ Lambda print (© Keld Helmer-Petersen, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York) In these photos — shot between 1941 and ...
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 ...
I don't know about you, Pandas, but I love period dramas. They're like a window into the past: we can see how people looked and lived a hundred or even more years ago. However, they're often just ...
Thanks to Instagram, photographers can now develop a global following with relative ease, and we love that. Seriously, we discover new photographers frequently that we are certain would have otherwise ...
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 ...
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 ...
By switching to monochrome, Drost has transformed one of the American Southwest's most colorful locations into an abstract ...
Claim: Photos from the civil rights movement were originally taken in color but shown in black and white to make them appear older The Black Lives Matter movement, along with protests sparked by the ...