Vous consultezLa couleur du réel. La photographie couleur(s) a-t-elle un sens ? (États-Unis 1960-1990)

Color is a central epistemological issue in photography. This article looks at the emergence of the use of color in creative American photography in the 1960s-1980s, focussing particularly on the works of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, and Joel Meyerowitz. It argues for a sociological and not only aesthetic explanation for the late introduction of color in creative practices, and suggests that the fast development of color photography paradoxically indicates a distancing with reality and a crisis of the faith in the power and meaning of objects.

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