The Kodak Library of Creative Photography. Make Color Work for You

Time-Life Books, 1983. — 112 p. — (The Kodak Library of Creative Photography).The Kodak Library of Creative Photography series is aimed at beginner photographers and consists of 18 volumes: Mastering Color, Dealing with Difficult Situations, Taking Better Travel Photos, Learning from the Experts, creating Special Effects, Magic of Black and White Photogrpahs, Building and Cityscapes, Mastering Composition and Light, Take Better Pictures, Art of Portraits and the Nude, Print Your Own Pictures, Set Up Your Home Studio, Extend Your Range, Photographing the Drama of Daily Life, Capture the Beauty in Nature, Make Color Work for You, and Photographing Friends and Family.Colors can be breathtaking when their impact is concentrated within the frame of a photograph - deep and resonant reds, subtly modulated greens, singing yellows, solemn or brilliant blues. Although the foundations and traditions of photography were laid in black and white, few photographers today can resist the power of color to evoke excitement, impact, variety - and simply to delight the eye.There is, of course, a whole range of photographs in which color may be no more than an incidental element, subsidiary t o the main point - which may be to record an event, or an aspect of human behavior, or the expression on a single face. However, this book explores something different - the way you can make color itself the subject of the picture by using it purposefully rather than incidentally. Developing this ability t o use color creatively can be an absorbing adventure, which may change your whole attitude t o color and make you aware that its influence is emotional as well as visual. Color has its own eloquence. The pictures on the following eleven pages work as they do because color is the essential element. Imagine, as you turn the pages, how much would be lost if t he images were in black and white. This is the magic of color.