Exploring Color Photography Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

Preface

“Everything that lives strives for color.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colors (1810)

Much has changed since Exploring Color Photography was first published in 1989. Digital imaging was then in its infancy and accounted for only a few pages of text and a handful of images. As the reader will see, that is no longer the case. Yet as I conclude the fifth edition, a great deal remains the same. Color photography continues to evolve as a flexible and permutable amalgamation of aesthetics, culture, psychology, and science. The book keeps striving to provide a stimulating introduction to the approaches, images, techniques, and history of color photography. As photo-based technology evolves, the text relies on a conceptual methodology ...