Chroma

Here is a wonderful and absorbing way to come to know and appreciate today's colour photography and its greatest practitioners. The book's grouping of photographs by six basic colours - red, blue, green, yellow, white and black - triggers a stream of enjoyable and stimulating experiences. After a succinct and clearly written overall introduction and one-page prefaces outlining what it is that the colours connote today and have done in the past, we enter a magical, amusing, haunting, up-lifting, thought-provoking, delightful and occasionally shocking universe. This book, with page after page of magnificently printed imagery, silently tells us more about the world today and yesterday, and how all of us interact with it and apprehend it and learn from it, than any formal study could ever do. The fact that it contains canonical and unusual photographs by practically all the great names and artists who use the medium may be seen as a bonus, or the very essence of the book. This is one of those rare publications of such startling simplicity in its conception that its future as a cult success is assured.