New Color Photography
ニューカラー / 1976– / Style / Photography Movements
The art photography of the everyday in color, legitimized by Eggleston's MoMA show. Dye-transfer density gave banal scenes gravity and overturned the rule that color was vulgar.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Nameless everyday scenes
- Dye-transfer saturation
- Casual oblique composition
- The intensity of red
Best used for
- Advertising that shows ordinary goods and storefronts through color rather than staging
- Photobooks on suburbs and small cities where the banal is the subject
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Captions carry only place and year, never explanation
- Composition
- Tilt off horizontal and push the subject toward an edge
- Material
- Let one red run dense while the rest stays faded
- Caution
- Raising saturation gets mistaken for the style, so the choice of subject goes unexamined and the pictures end up loud but with no reason to look.
- Further study
- Eggleston's Guide / Stephen Shore / Joel Meyerowitz
Related entries
- New Topographics (ニュー・トポグラフィックス)Same Photography Movements lineage.Compare New Color Photography and New Topographics
- Snapshot Aesthetic (スナップショット美学)Shared effects: Intimacy / Rebellion.Compare New Color Photography and Snapshot Aesthetic
Often confused with
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Continue through styles in the same Photography Movements family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Pictorialism (ピクトリアリズム)Shared effects: Intimacy / Calm.
- Provoke (プロヴォーク)Shared effects: Rebellion / Calm.
- FSA Documentary (FSAドキュメンタリー)Shared effects: Intimacy / Calm.
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